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Glen Cottage

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Description: View across unpaved road towards Glen Cottage, later Crandall Hotel.
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Layton House

Date: 1880
Description: 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style...
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.
Photograph

Pinckney Street

Date: 1859
Description: Daguerreotype of elevated view of Pinckney Street, looking northwest. View includes the American House and Bruen's Block, both on the corner of East Washin...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Small town business district with a group of men and women posed on the board sidewalk on the right. Another group of men and boys are on and around a trac...
Photograph

Leonard Martin's Tavern

Date: 1910
Description: View from fork in road of Martin's Tavern in Chamberlain. There is a horse and carriage with driver on the left. Three men sit or stand in front of the tav...
Postcard

Mill Street, Fox Lake

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Description: View of an intersection of dirt roads, with a large building, possibly an inn or apartment building on the right corner. A carriage or car is parked near t...
Photograph

Out-Freight House No. 7

Date: 1915
Description: Horse-drawn and motor freight vehicles at the Out-Freight House No. 7 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
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Plankinton House

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of the street and construction site outside of the Plankinton House hotel and various storefronts. Along the street and sidewalks are horse-d...
Photograph

Montello Rural Mail Carriers

Date: 1903
Description: Three rural mail carriers pose with their horses and buggies in front of the Montello Post Office. Postmaster (Dr.) Edward A. Bass stands in the backgroun...
Photograph

Cattle Driven Down a Street

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Description: View of cattle being driven down a street. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Covington, LA."
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Manure Spreaders on Display in Town

Date: 03 15 1911
Description: View down street of large group of men in small town with over 15 manure spreaders on display. On the left near an intersection is a firehouse with a tower...
Photograph

Washington Street

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Description: A view of Washington Street. Trees line the street, as do telephone and/or electric lines. A carriage is parked on the right side of the street, in the mid...
Painting

Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
Painting

The Country Store

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Description: View of a country store in autumn. A man driving a horse-drawn wagon hauls full milkcans in the foreground and, to the right, several families are hauling ...
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...
Photograph

Fire Department Carts With Huge Water Barrels

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Description: Men steer mule-drawn Fire Department carts down a dirt road in Matamoros, Mexico. Several buildings stand in the background.
Photograph

Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street dirt road. A horse and buggy stand near a sidewalk on the left near a group of men. Further down on the right the Bangor State Bank h...
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View down road of horses, wagons and buggies parked in front of buildings. Three men stand near a hotel on the right. A church building is in the backgroun...
Postcard

Hotel Carley

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Description: Photographic postcard view of the Hotel Carley. Two women are sitting on the far left steps of the hotel. One man is sitting in a chair near the entrance, ...

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