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Visual display of the Main Street

Main Street

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Main Street

Lyman, Elizabeth

1870

This view is looking north from the corner at Park Street (57th). Note the dirt road and sprinkling wagon in center of the street. There is a plank sidewalk and crosswalk. Only one street lamp and that is one block north at Market Street. Building material way into the middle of the street.

TO 2/28/08

Publication Details

Photographer: Lyman, Elizabeth
Contributor: University of Wisconsin
Date: 1870
Collections: State of Wisconsin Collection; Wisconsin Local Histories
Description of Original: 1 glass lantern slide ; 8.3 cm. x 10.2 cm.
Subjects: Cityscapes; Kenosha County (Wis.); Kenosha (Wis.)
Part of: The Kenosha History Center's C. E. Dewey Lantern Slide Collection
Part of: Kenosha County History: Images and Texts, 1830s-1940s
Location of Original: Kenosha History Center : C. E. Dewey Collection, no. 72
For Staff: METS