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Map or Atlas

Map of Burnett County, Wisconsin

Date: 1901
Description: Map shows lakes, rivers, schools, saw mills, post offices, creameries, and churches. Includes significant manuscript annotations showing township divisions...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Watertown

Date: 04 1901
Description: A Sanborn map of Watertown, including an index and a key.
Drawing

Drawing of Train Cars at Coal Mine

Date: 1901
Description: Drawing of two railroad cars being loaded with coal.
Map or Atlas

Map of Polk County Wisconsin

Date: 1901
Description: Map shows townships, schools, creameries, post offices, and roads. The left side of the map features a legend with symbols for points of interest.
Photograph

Machine Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Exterior view of a machine factory.
Photograph

Machine Factory

Date: 1901
Description: Exterior view of a machine factory.
Print

A.H. Kayser Lumber Yard Advertisement

Date: 1901
Description: An advertisement for the A.H. Kayser lumberyard at 204 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Mower Crates at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1901
Description: Shipping crates at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company factory. The crates contain a Little 4 mower bound for Anderson & Mattson of Malmo, a McCormick...
Photograph

Conklin and Sons Coal Yard

Date: 1901
Description: Conklin & Sons coal yard at 614 West Main Street. The coal yard was next to railroad tracks and sold coal, wood, and ice.
Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover featuring a color illustration of flowers, moons, stars and stalks of wheat.
Photograph

Klinkert Hotel

Date: 1901
Description: The first Klinkert Hotel. It burned down around 1905, and was replaced by the brick structure with the same name. Signs advertising Harper Rye are on eithe...
Photograph

Building Under Construction

Date: 1901
Description: View from a distance of the framework of a large building under construction next to a house in Corliss.
Photograph

The Hotel Nelson

Date: 1901
Description: Exterior view of the Hotel Nelson, a brick building with Schlitz Beer signs on top.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Corn Binder Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of red and yellow dried corn spilling out of a basket.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1901
Description: Lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Includes the company initials and a drawing of the company's...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover — The Key to Success

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a key with a round frame around an inset scene of an Osborne binding machine in a field.
Photograph

Brillion News Print Shop

Date: 1901
Description: Interior view of the Brillion News Print Shop, where a printer and his assistants, two women, are posing around a press and work tables.
Photograph

Oil Gusher

Date: 1901
Description: A view of oil wells in Louisiana. On October 7, 1901, oil gushed to a height of seventy-five or eighty feet, continuing for seven hours. Caption reads: "Gu...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvester Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1901
Description: Catalog cover for Deering Harvester Machines with an orange cover, an embossed illustration of stalks of wheat in green, and a coat of arms with the date "...
Poster

Poster of McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1901
Description: Left section of poster. Copy of graphic titled: "McCormick Reaper Works 1901" with a bird's-eye view of the factory. Inset photograph of the old blacksmith...

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