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Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
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Fire at Atlas Flour Mill

Date: 12 11 1926
Description: Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the...
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Bird's-Eye View of Milwaukee

Date: 1853
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milwaukee looking east toward Lake Michigan from a bluff, long since graded into a slope, at about 6th Street between Wisconsin Avenue an...
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Deering Works Gate Scene

Date: 07 13 1905
Description: Workers milling around the factory gates at the Fullerton Avenue side of International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was originally built by Willi...
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IHC Hamilton Works Factory Complex

Date: 03 26 1924
Description: Artist's bird's-eye illustration of International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory complex, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, by H.M. Pettit.
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Weber Wagon Works Factory Building

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Description: Elevated panoramic view of International Harvester's Weber Works factory building in Auburn Park. The factory was owned by the Weber Wagon Company until 19...
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McCormick Works at Dusk

Date: 05 17 1937
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester's McCormick Works at dusk. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and became part of Internation...
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Steam Engine Leaving McCormick Works Railroad Yard

Date: 04 16 1929
Description: Elevated view of steam engine pulling railroad cars in the railroad yard at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Delivery Driver Posing with Horse-Drawn Cart

Date: 10 01 1912
Description: African American wagon driver standing with a horse-drawn wagon parked on a city street. The man is likely an employee of International Harvester, possibly...
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Perspective Map of Beloit

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the...
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Cedarburg, Wisconsin

Date: 2007
Description: This map of Cedarbug is a bird's-eye map with 8 inset views and an index. The map is a print out of the original map dated 1892 held at the Cedarburg Cultu...
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De Pere, Wis.

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye map of De Pere.
Map or Atlas

Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Looking West

Date: 1891
Description: Bird's-eye view of Eau Claire.
Map or Atlas

Jefferson, Wisconsin, Looking North

Date: 1893
Description: Bird's-eye map of Jefferson, looking north. Crayfish River at left and center, Rock River from upper center to bottom center, joins at left of center; thir...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of the Village of Kaukauna, Wisconsin

Date: 12 21 1882
Description: Bird's-eye map of Kaukauna, from the Appleton Post Annual Review.
Photograph

Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street.
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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ...
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Ray-O-Vac Buildings

Date: 11 28 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac buildings on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building, production plant, two houses: 2327 and 2331 Winnebago Street, and several cars....
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Feldman Paper Box Co. Building

Date: 04 24 1935
Description: North side of Feldman Paper Box Co. building, 29 N. Charter Street.
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Madison Pattern Works & Polk Mfg. Co.

Date: 08 11 1930
Description: Madison Pattern Works and Polk Manufacturing Company building, 2021-2023 Winnebago Street. Oscar Bock was president of the Bock Oil Burner Co. and Polk Man...

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