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Vieau Trading Post

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Description: Vieau trading post.
Drawing

Fur Trading Post

Date: 1833
Description: Illustration of the Solomon Juneau fur trading post at Milwaukee in 1833.
Drawing

Buttles Farm House, Town Milwaukee

Date: 1952
Description: Ink drawing of a cabin in the woods. Cabin has one door and one window visible, as well as a stone chimney.
Postcard

Solomon Log Cabin Replica

Date: 1955
Description: View toward the front entrance of the cabin with a stone chimney on the right.
Photograph

Vieau Cabin with Historic Site Marker

Date: 1940
Description: A replica of the cabin built by Jacques Vieau, now in Mitchell Park. A stone monument with a plaque sits in front of the cabin.
Photograph

Vieau Historic Site Marker with Log Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: Historic marker placed on the site of the first cabin built in Milwaukee, 1795. A replica cabin is behind. The plaque says: On this site the first permane...
Photograph

Pathfinder Automobile Inside Log Barn

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Description: The Milwaukee Journal Pathfinder parked inside a log barn. Four people (two women, two men) are sitting in the car. The Pathfinder sign is on the back of t...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1896
Description: Front cover and menu page from the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet. On the cover is an illustration of Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott riding his horse, "Gunpowde...
Book or Pamphlet

Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu

Date: 02 22 1899
Description: Front cover and menu page of the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet, with a man wielding an axe and chopping down a tree. A log cabin stands in the woods be...
Photograph

Juneau Exhibit Dedicated

Date: 11 11 1971
Description: One woman and two men standing near a museum exhibit, with a statue of a Native American and part of a log structure in the foreground. Caption reads: "JUN...

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