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Milwaukee Coal Wagon

Date: 1904
Description: Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street.
Drawing

C.H. & L.J. McCormick's Reaper Manufactory

Date: 1875
Description: Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin...
Drawing

City Hall

Date: 1859
Description: City Hall in the background of a bustling street, with pedestrians, horses, carriages, and wagons. A stagecoach is parked across the street on the left.
Document

Milwaukee House Stationery

Date: 1857
Description: Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ...
Photograph

Crowded Lake Street

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Description: Elevated view of Lake Street, east from Clark Street, crowded with traffic.
Photograph

Business District

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of East Broadway, a wide road in the business district. The street has tall stone and brick buildings as well as broad sidewalks. Many horse...
Photograph

North Adams Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street, lined on either side with storefronts, automobiles, wagons, telephone wires and poles, and people.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1911
Description: A view down Main Street in Camp Douglas.
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View down a high-traffic dirt road featuring shops and horse-drawn carriages.
Photograph

Main Street View

Date: 06 01 1892
Description: View down Main Street featuring crowds of people near the Theatre Comique and other stores and offices.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Men walk in the street past storefronts on Main Street.
Print

Stoughton Wagon Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Stoughton Wagon Company, a manufacturer of wagons, buggies, carriages, and oscillating bob sleighs, from Stoughton, Wisconsin, with an im...
Print

John Pritzlaff Hardware Co. Billhead

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Description: Billhead of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "jobbers in hardware, iron & cutlery, bicycles, sporting goods etc.," with a three...
Photograph

Main Street Looking South

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down unpaved Main Street, with wagons and carts parked near the curb on the left near a building with a sign for a "Garage." Pedestrians are a...
Photograph

Monroe Street

Date: 1912
Description: View from intersection of businesses along the left side of Monroe Street. A group of men are standing at the door of the drugstore on the corner, which ha...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1915
Description: View down street in the central business district. Automobiles and horse-drawn vehicles are parked along the curbs. Businesses line the street on both side...
Photograph

Munition Carts

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Description: Two-wheeled munitions and supply carts used by Austro-Hungarian troops in Albania.
Photograph

Downtown Iola

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Description: Slightly elevated view of downtown Iola. The curbs are lined with horse-drawn carriages and wagons, and people are gathered on the sidewalks in front of st...
Photograph

Downtown Iola

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Description: View looking down street towards storefronts. On the left side of the street, horse-drawn carriages and wagons are lined up at the curb, and more carriages...
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 ...

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