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Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

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Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
Drawing

Drawing of Cassville

Date: 1829
Description: Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats.
Photograph

South Side of Canal Street

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Description: Slightly elevated view of stores on Canal Street, with people in the streeet, and along the sidewalks in front of commercial buildings. There is a Hardware...
Photograph

Cassville Brewery

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d...
Photograph

Cassville Storefronts

Date: 1910
Description: Three storefronts on a dirt road. A man, said to be Charles Grimm, is driving a horse and buggy. The building in the center is Feiker's photo studio. Near ...
Photograph

Stonefield Village

Date: 1965
Description: Rear view of a couple sitting in a horse-drawn buggy which is driving through a covered bridge at Stonefield Village. Buildings and trees are in the distan...
Drawing

Platteville Brewery

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Description: An engraving based on a drawing by Alexander Simplot of the Platteville Brewery (spelled Plattville). It is an elevated perspective showing the main buildi...
Photograph

Man with Horse and Buggy

Date: 1894
Description: Man in coat and top hat holding the harness of a horse attached to a buggy.
Photograph

Potosi Brewery

Date: 1886
Description: Exterior view of the Potosi Brewery at about the time Adam Schumacher took over the operation. Children and adults can be seen near a fence and in horse-dr...
Photograph

Potosi Panorama

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Description: Panoramic view showing, on the left, the bottling plant and the stables, and on the right, the Potosi Brewery itself. Groups of men are standing on the sid...
Photograph

Potosi Brewery

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Description: The Potosi Brewery. Men can be seen standing in front of the building, and driving horse-drawn vehicles.
Photograph

Upper Beetown School

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Description: View from field of two horses grazing near a fence in the area outside the clapboard school building. There is a small outhouse on the far left. A hill wit...
Photograph

Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from road up hill of teacher and students posing in front of a clapboard and one-room schoolhouse. A horse and buggy are on the hill on the right.
Photograph

Picnic Dinner

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Description: Children and adults seated at a large make-shift picnic table in a field near a tree. In the background on the left is a carriage, and on the right a horse...
Photograph

Livestock Judging at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon...
Photograph

Horses at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Men standing in a field holding horses by their bridles. One man is in a horse-drawn carriage. In the background on the far side of the field is a crowd ne...
Photograph

Tyler House

Date: 1926
Description: A reproduction of an early print of a long, two-story wooden building with a front porch identified as the Tyler House. A man drives a horse-drawn wagon in...
Postcard

Hotel Donnelly

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Description: Photographic postcard of the Hotel Donnelly. Men are standing and visiting on the porch. A sign on the corner reads: "Hotel & Livery." Horse-drawn vehicles...
Postcard

Business District

Date: 10 04 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of the business district in Blue River. Stores and a wooden boardwalk line the dirt street, and horse-drawn wagons wait in front of t...
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 07 01 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of Main Street. Many people can be seen on the sidewalks and flags decorate the buildings. The street is not paved and several horse-...

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