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Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Date: 1874
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chippewa Falls.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Milton Junction. Rock Co. Wis.

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction.
Photograph

Portage View

Date: 1856
Description: View of Portage, including St. Mary's Church.
Photograph

Lombardy Poplars

Date: 
Description: A rural lane lined with Lombardy poplars runs between two fenced fields. Two men are standing in the lane looking towards the camera. A church and many oth...
Photograph

New Glarus from Hill

Date: 1874
Description: View of New Glarus from a neighboring hill. A man, wearing a hat and suit, and five children, girls and boys, are posing along the fence in the foreground....
Photograph

New Glarus from a Distance

Date: 1874
Description: View, from a distance, of New Glarus. A hill, trees and fences are in the foreground.
Photograph

Lodi From Cemetery Hill

Date: 1876
Description: A view of the town of Lodi as viewed from the hill north of the cemetery.
Photograph

Farmhouses and Churches

Date: 1900
Description: View from hill across field towards farmhouses, dwellings and churches along a road. In the foreground are stumps. Caption reads: "Big Falls, Wis."
Photograph

View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses.
Photograph

Laxey Church

Date: 1947
Description: Laxey Church, built prior to the Civil War, was named after Laxey in the Isle of Man, from which many of the immigrants had come. There is a cemetery with ...
Postcard

Holy Hill

Date: 1920
Description: View of Holy Hill, with a field and the Hillside Hotel in the foreground. Captions read: "America's Favorite Place of Pilgrimage" and "The Holy Hill and Hi...
Photograph

Holy Hill

Date: 1963
Description: Elevated view of the Kettle Moraine area from Holy Hill.
Photograph

Aerial View of Downtown Sun Prairie

Date: 10 1928
Description: Aerial view of Sun Prairie, including the central business district, residences, and the surrounding countryside stretching to the horizon.
Photograph

Elevated View of Wausau in Summer

Date: 1912
Description: Elevated view of Wausau from the edge of town looking toward residences and businesses. Hills are in the far background.
Photograph

View of Theresa, Wisconsin

Date: 1907
Description: View of Theresa, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1896
Description: Elevated view. Caption on negative sleeve reads: "Black Hawk Battlefield. Wis. Heights. Looking N. of E. up valley towards Catholic Church. Mrs. Charles N....
Photograph

Bird's Eye View of Town

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the town with hills in the distance. In the foreground are cattle inside a fence near a cemetery with a windmill. The town is behind furth...
Photograph

Town Hall and Church

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior of a town hall originally built in 1896 as a church in rural Orange Township, Black Hawk County, Iowa. There is a weather vane on top of the steep...
Photograph

U.B. Church

Date: 
Description: Exterior of the one-room United Brethren [?] Church. There is an outhouse to the left of the church. On the right is a hill with trees. Farm building and a...

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