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Drawing

Madison Capital House

Date: 1853
Description: Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Print

American House

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Description: Building with three levels, a porch and two balconies across the front of the house, a roof, and a man with a telescope in a belvedere in the center of the...
Photograph

Clock Tower in Park

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Description: A clock tower on the green in front of The Elton Hotel. The clock is flanked by tall trees and a line of cars and carriages are parked between the green an...
Photograph

The Curtis Hotel

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Description: Exterior of the Curtis Hotel, a Victorian era building expanded in 1883. Horse-drawn carriages can be seen parked underneath an awning, and a man stands o...
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...
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View across intersection down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles and horse-drawn...
Photograph

Street Scene in the Business District

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Description: View down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson in the distance at left, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles, cable cars...
Photograph

Downtown Street Scene

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Description: View of a downtown street featuring cable cars, horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and storefronts. National Hotel, built in 1855, stands on the street co...
Photograph

Buildings Along Railroad Track

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Description: Railroad tracks pass by a hotel and restaurant and the Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco Factory.
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: Horse-drawn carriages park outside Elmrose Hotel, built in 1889 as the Andrews Hotel and destroyed by fire in 1929.
Photograph

Business District

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Description: View of a business district intersection with a man perched in the telephone wires overhead. The Gladstone Hotel, built in 1908, is visible to his right.
Photograph

Business Section

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Description: View of the business section of town. The street is lined with businesses including the National Bank of Commerce, a hotel, and a clothing store. Text on t...
Print

Knight Hotel Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Knight Hotel of Ashland, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the hotel and traffic in the surrounding streets, including pedestrians,...
Photograph

Columbia Hotel and Railroad Depot

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Description: View down railroad tracks of the Leominster Railroad Depot. A boy can be seen riding his bicycle on the platform. Beyond the station stands Columbia Hotel,...
Print

Simon House Restaurant Menu

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Description: Front cover and center spread of the Simon House Restaurant dinner menu, with a profile illustration of a carriage, decorative flourishes around the name o...
Photograph

Omnibus Line in Front of Park Hotel

Date: 1878
Description: View from the street of a man holding the reins for a team of two horses and sitting in the driver's seat of the Omnibus Line in front of the Park Hotel on...
Postcard

Baldwin Street

Date: 08 17 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "Baldwin Street, Sharon, Wisc." An unpaved street with railroad tracks crossing in the foreground. A sign near a pavilion on the left ...
Postcard

Hotel and Depot

Date: 10 04 1915
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel and Depot, Spooner, Wis." A view of the railroad depot and platform on the left, with the hotel on the right. People are on the...
Postcard

Hotel Aussem

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Hotel Aussem, Thiensville, Wis. Eleven Miles North of Milwaukee, on C.M. & St. P.R.R., and Milwaukee Northern Electric R.R., Also on ...

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