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Postcard

Fishing Industry on Mississippi River

Date: 1907
Description: Fishing implements on the shoreline of the Mississippi River, and a bluff in the background. Caption reads: "Fish Industry, Mississippi River, La Crosse, W...
Book or Pamphlet

Buffalo Pitts Threshers Catalog Cover

Date: 1906
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Buffalo Pitts threshers sold by International Harvester. The cover features an illustration of four buffalo standing ne...
Photograph

Man with McCormick Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man is farming a hillside using a McCormick grain binder led by a team of two horses.
Photograph

McCormick Binder on Hillside

Date: 1900
Description: A man is using a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder on a hillside overlooking a valley with houses and other buildings.
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View of Railroad Yards

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of the Fennimore, primarily the train depot. There is a windmill near railroad cars, and dwellings are in the distance.
Photograph

Man with Horse-Drawn Corn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a man with a horse-drawn corn binder. A man is standing behind the binder on the left holding onto a shock of cornstalks. In the ...
Postcard

Baker Manufacturing Co.

Date: 1909
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Baker Manufacturing Plant. Caption reads: "Evansville, Wis. Baker Manufacturing Co."
Photograph

Mill and Pond

Date: 1904
Description: A view of the mill and pond landscape of Sleepy Hollow.
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor (Green Bay), Brown County, Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1900
Description: This photostat map shows private claim owners, natural meadows, roads, saw and grist mills, and Fort Howard. The upper right corner includes annotations an...
Photograph

Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
Photograph

Elevated View of Town

Date: 1909
Description: Elevated view of town. A person is in the right foreground. Caption reads: "A Glimpse(?) of Port Washington, Wis."
Postcard

Thoma's Resort, Little Cedar Lake

Date: 1908
Description: Hand-colored view of Thoma's Resort. Little Cedar Lake is in the background. Caption reads: "Thoma's Resort, Little Cedar Lake, Wis."
Photograph

Aerial View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Aerial view of town. The Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. The Furnace Branch creek runs through the town in the foreground.
Postcard

Mill and Dam

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view looking down at the Waterloo Roller Mills and Dam. Caption reads: "Mill and Dam, Waterloo, Wis."
Photograph

Woman Drinking Beer

Date: 1906
Description: Mary Smith, wife of Dr. Joseph Smith, drinks a beer on a veranda or balcony while on sojourn in Austria. Mr. and Mrs. Smith stayed in Austria for eight mon...
Photograph

Depot and Yards

Date: 1909
Description: View along a brick platform towards the Glen Haven depot, where two men stand against the building. Behind the depot is a building with a sign for the "Me...
Photograph

Elevated View of Town and Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view over city. A church is in the middle foreground, and the Mississippi River and far shoreline is in the background. On the right side is a dir...
Photograph

View of Madison

Date: 1905
Description: View of Madison in the far distance taken from the third floor of a home at 216 Campbell Street, in University Heights. There is a power line suspended in ...
Photograph

Cutting Fire Wood

Date: 1905
Description: Six men posing in front of a portable steam driven circular saw on the Von der Sump farm. A portion of the saw blade is visible between two men in the cent...
Photograph

Landscape with Horse-Drawn Carriage near River

Date: 1900
Description: View down hill towards men standing near a horse-drawn carriage on the shoreline of a river. On the other side of the river is a high stone wall with grass...

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