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Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the City of Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Birds-eye drawing of Beaver Dam, Dodge Co., depicting street names and street layout, houses, rivers, lakes, and trees. A reference key at the bottom of th...
Postcard

Industrial Sector

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "Birds Eye View, from cotton mill tower, Beaver Dam, Wis." Two churches are in the background, and there are smokestacks and a water tower n...
Print

Mayville Iron Company

Date: 1930
Description: The Mayville Iron Co.
Photograph

John Deere Farm Machinery Manufacturing Plant

Date: 05 05 1962
Description: The John Deere farm machinery manufacturing plant. "Bascule" passage between buildings which is raised to let freight cars pass on railroad tracks.
Photograph

Raccoon Hunters

Date: 1955
Description: "This photo, taken by the light of the full moon, shows coon hunter Alfred 'Butch' Muche patiently waiting for his fellow hunters. Kodak Super XX film was ...
Photograph

Building Block

Date: 09 1994
Description: "Mason Rueben Schuster displays a building block invented by his grandfather."
Photograph

Neda Mine Bat Hibernaculum

Date: 11 1996
Description: "What was a thriving iron ore mine at Neda is now home to some 500,000 bats. The steel cage keeps humans out, but allows access for the bats."
Map or Atlas

Topography, Wisconsin, Gogebic Iron Range

Date: 1921
Description: Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Includes inset location map. "Contour interval 10 feet." "Advance sheet, subject to correction." "Surveyed in 19...
Historical Essay

Letterheads - Image Gallery Essay

Promotions on Paper, 1850s-1975
Custom-designed letterheads were a universal way of proclaiming who you were. Historical letterheads are prime examples of early branding.
Photograph

The Groom Smoking

Date: 06 30 1951
Description: Oliver Justman, looking suave, calmly smokes a cigarette as he watches his bride Dorothy being photographed.
Photograph

Elevated View of Beaver Dam

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of town with homes and factories.
Photograph

Beck's Sugarbush

Date: 1986
Description: Shirley and Alphonse Beck are dwarfed by this large Red Oak in Beck's Woods along North Pole Road, near the Theresa Station. The tree measures 12 feet in c...
Photograph

Ground Breaking Ceremony

Date: 08 1988
Description: Ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Mountin's new Piggly Wiggly store in Mayville.
Map or Atlas

Iron mines in T.11 R.16, Dodge Co., Wis.

Date: 1870
Description: This map is ink and color on tracing cloth and shows Iron Ridge, the hotel and saw mill at Iron Ridge Village, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, plank road, an...
Photograph

Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar in a Rowboat

Date: 1906
Description: Alexander, Jennie, and Edgar Krueger in a rowboat on the quarry pond. The remnants of the old kiln stand on the hill above the pond.
Photograph

Florentina in a Man's Suit

Date: 09 1906
Description: Portrait of Florentina Krueger sitting outdoors in a wicker chair. She is wearing a man's white suit and hat, and is holding a cigar in her left hand and a...
Photograph

Hattie Fels Owen in Men's Suit

Date: 1908
Description: Hattie Fels Owen sitting in a wicker rocking chair. She is wearing a man's suit and hat and posing with a cigar.
Photograph

Boat on Quarry Pond

Date: 04 07 1901
Description: Alexander Krueger and Ernie Buelke fishing in a rowboat on the quarry pond.
Photograph

Fishing on Quarry Pond

Date: 04 07 1901
Description: Ernie Buelke fishing from a rowboat on the quarry pond.
Photograph

Family in Front of their Home

Date: 1905
Description: View across yard of an unidentified family posing in front of their home. In the foreground is a hand-pump. From the left a young boy is sitting in a rocki...

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