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Map or Atlas

Kenosha, Wis.

Date: 12 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Kenosha.
Photograph

Crowded Pier and Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat.
Photograph

People aboard Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: People seated in a small steamboat tied at a pier on a lake. A flag flies from the bow and there is a two-story frame house on the shore. This photograph m...
Photograph

Kenosha in Winter

Date: 1934
Description: Aerial view of Kenosha in the winter.
Photograph

Allen and Sons Tannery

Date: 
Description: The buildings of Allen & Sons Tannery, with boats carrying supplies in the foreground.
Photograph

Kenosha Harbor

Date: 1940
Description: A view across Kenosha harbor at the large Simmons Company factory building.
Postcard

Pike River and Middle Street Bridge

Date: 
Description: The Middle Street bridge over the Pike River. Caption reads: "Pike River & Middle St. Bridge, Kenosha, Wis."
Photograph

Morgan Club House

Date: 1920
Description: The Morgan Club House on the river. A long, narrow excursion boat is moored on the dock in front of the club.
Print

View of Southport

Date: 1842
Description: Lithograph of Southport.
Photograph

Villiage of Southport

Date: 10 1844
Description: A variant of a wood engraving dated October, 1844. Incorporated as the villige of Southport in 1841 (so-named because it was the southern-most natural harb...
Print

Southport From the Water

Date: 10 1844
Description: View from a pile-driver on the north pier of the community then known as Southport. The pier visible at left center, constructed between 1840-1842, was th...
Postcard

Eichelman Park

Date: 1918
Description: The Lake Michigan shoreline from Eichelman Park. In the distance is a smokestack and industrial buildings. Caption reads: "Scene on Lake Michigan from Eich...
Photograph

Bain's Camp

Date: 
Description: Several men and women sit outdoors on the grounds of Bain's Camp in Twin Lakes, Wisconsin.
Print

Fishing Station

Date: 
Description: Engraving of a wooden shack on a Lake Michigan beach surrounded by rowboats, a campfire, and a wooded bluff. Two men stand on the beach near the water.
Photograph

Marina near Park

Date: 08 31 1963
Description: View of a private boat marina, as seen from a park.
Photograph

Lake Michigan Shoreline

Date: 08 31 1963
Description: View from rock border of a breakwater on Lake Michigan.
Photograph

International Auto-Carrier Truck

Date: 1946
Description: International truck utilized by K*A*T Corporation for multi-automobile hauling. The truck is parked on a road with a river in the background.
Map or Atlas

Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1946
Description: A map showing the roads, railroads, towns, cities and villages, streams and lakes, airports, schools, churches, cemeteries, and golf courses in Kenosha Cou...
Map or Atlas

Part of Town of Somers, Kenosha County, Wisconsin

Date: 10 19 1836
Description: This 1836 manuscript map shows the sections, windfalls, marshes, streams, prairies, acreages, and former mouth of the Pike River in what is now the eastern...
Photograph

North Pier and Lighthouse

Date: 1890
Description: View from the shore of Kenosha's North Pier and lighthouse. Waves are breaking on the shore of Lake Michigan.

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