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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Shell Lake before a fire on December 3, 1889 which swept Main Street and destroyed more than twenty business places. |
| Date: | 03 15 1866 |
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| Description: | People gather the morning after a fire that destroyed Dixon's store as well as $100,000 worth of goods and eleven other places of business. The flames were... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This maps has an index of depots, hotels, prominent institutions and buildings, churches, and places of amusement. The map was removed from an unidentified... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from across street of Roosevelt Terrace apartments. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Seated oval portrait of Nathaniel Dean (1817-1880). Dean was a prominent early Madison businessman and political leader. He built a cream brick farm hous... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Jackson Street. Tower missing the top two levels of later images. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Murray-Kearney house. Caption reads: "Kearney Residence, cor of Asylum(?) & Washington Ave Racine." |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View of St. John's Catherdral with the original tower. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Map of Milwaukee "Compiled under the direction of the J.V. DUPRE ABSTRACT CO., from Dupre’s 1/4-Sectn’l Atlas of Milwaukee, by G. Steinhagen, C.E." Contain... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Stereograph. Elevated view over Courthouse Square (now Cathedral Square) and Jackson Street towards the cathedral, which has a large clock tower. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The map reads: "Compiled under the direction of the J.V. DUPRE ABSTRACT CO. from Dupre’s 1/4 Sectn’l Atlas of Milwaukee, by G. Steinhagen, C.E." The map co... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereographic exterior view of the Murray-Kearney house. Caption reads: "Geo. Murray Residence, Racine, Wis. Wash -n Ave & Asylum(?) Ave". |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View of the Vaughn Library building, built of brick in 1888 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was supported by retail, apartments and offices located on ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of William H. Cheney (?) and Lyman Richardson. Half length portrait, seated, facing forward, wearing their Civil War uniforms... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Two maps that show cemeteries, schools, engine houses, railroads, street railways, wards, roads, parks, block numbers, and Lake Michigan. One map has wards... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men and ships near the McCormick Works and the Chicago River during the Chicago Fire of 1871. The original caption reads: "Reproduction o... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | A hand-colored map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that shows the township and range system, sections, towns, roads, railroads and rail stations, cities and... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | View of the Baraboo River and surrounding structures. |
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