Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The multi-storied Orphans' Home in Wittenberg. Handwriting on front reads: "Orphans Home Wittenberg Wis". |
Date: | 1888 |
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Description: | Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he... |
Date: | 07 19 1895 |
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Description: | Man and dog standing in a field of spring wheat on the farm of Ferdinand Ledke. Another man is standing in the background, facing the forest. |
Date: | 07 09 1895 |
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Description: | Man driving a cream wagon pulled by a team of horses and loaded with dairy products. |
Brief account of the Peshtigo Fire that, in 1871, destroyed in two hours a swath of forest 10 miles wide and 40 miles long. |
A Disappointment that Created a Community |
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Learn about the most successful Utopian community in Wisconsin, born of a failed doomsday prediction. |
Promotions on Paper, 1850s-1975 |
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Custom-designed letterheads were a universal way of proclaiming who you were. Historical letterheads are prime examples of early branding. |
Date: | 1834 |
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Description: | This map is pen, ink, and pencil on paper and shows plat of the town, local streets, mills, forts, hospitals, and parts of Devil River and Fox River. |
Date: | 1893 |
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Description: | Formal quarter-length portrait of Ettina Mae Perry Franklin, and her daughter Ida Belle Franklin. Ettina was married to Jerome Francis Franklin Sr. Ida mar... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Formal quarter-length studio portrait of Jerome Francis Franklin, Sr. as a young man, about 30 years old. At this time he was married to Ettina Mae Perry F... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Perry Small Franklin standing on the porch of a house, a door in the background. He is approximately two years old. He is wearing a short dress, the kind y... |
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