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Two Women in Buggy

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Description: Two women in a buggy driving a team of two horses. The woman on the right is possibly Margie Sprester.
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

Loading Hard Coal

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Description: Two horses hitched up to a Milwaukee Western Fuel Company cart stopped at a station, with a man standing on the wagon filling the cart with hard coal for h...
Photograph

Mayne Hotel

Date: 08 1925
Description: A mower and car parked in front of the dilapidated Mayne Hotel. Two boys are standing to the right of the car, and two men are talking near a wagon and bug...
Painting

The Blacksmith Shop

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Description: A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses.
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

Business District

Date: 1910
Description: Carriages park outside restaurants and shops in a central business district.
Photograph

Main Street

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Description: View down Main Street featuring Rathman Hall Company and small businesses.
Photograph

East Main Street

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Description: View down East Main Street featuring several storefronts. Published by S. Friedman.
Photograph

Morley Avenue

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Description: View down Morley Avenue, lined with stores and small businesses. A stone building at right is labeled 'Escalada Bros.'; it was established in 1892 by the ...
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

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

Conklin Ice House

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Description: Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. A man is standing in the snow-covered yard in the foreground near a sleigh, and a carriage with a sign painted on the si...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1906
Description: The printed inscription identifies this scene, "Looking South on Main Street, Montello, Wis." A woman is standing on the sidewalk at left near a parked bug...
Photograph

The Mail Wagon

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval infantry in Antwerp. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
Postcard

A Busy Day in Rio

Date: 08 18 1910
Description: Text on front reads: "A Busy Day in Rio." Slightly elevated view of an unpaved main street with cement sidewalks and crosswalks. There are buildings and s...
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 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 ...
Postcard

Market Day on Third Street

Date: 11 04 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Market Day on Third Street. Greetings from Watertown, Wis." Elevated view of a busy street scene on market day, with many pedestrians...

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