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Description: | Charles Darwin seated on a wicker chair with folded hands. |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | Drawing by architect Stephen Vaughn Shipman of the dome for the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Wisconsin selected Shipman's design for the dome because of ... |
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Description: | Drawing comparing the dimensions of two Wisconsin State Capitols and the United States Capitol. |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | Section drawing of the rotunda of the third Wisconsin State Capitol (second in Madison) by Stephen V. Shipman. August Kutzbock and Samuel H. Donnel were th... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Panoramic sketch of State Street between North and South Halls on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrate Newsp... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Charcoal portrait of George Baxter Burrows. A Wisconsin State Senator (1878-1882) and real estate broker, he willed his twelve-acre Lake Mendota frontage e... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Illustration of people standing in front of the popular tourist resort Tonyawatha House from a book of two-tone lithograph views of Madison. About 1885 the... |
Date: | 1885 |
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Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the tourist resort Tonyawatha Spring Hotel (an earlier version was called Tonyawatha House) from across Lake Monona. There ... |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory. |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Illustration of the new museum building, also known as "Bruen's Block," on the corner of East Washington Avenue and South Pinckney Street. Named for W.D. B... |
Date: | 1853 |
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Description: | Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the... |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark ... |
Date: | 1848 |
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Description: | Sketch of the Madison Women's Seminary on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and East Johnson. The Madison Female Academy was a 19th century school for girls w... |
Date: | 07 01 1898 |
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Description: | Illustration of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. |
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Description: | Illustration of an immaculate farmstead captioned as "Woodland home as occupied by Farmer Thrifty". |
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Description: | Illustration of farmstead in disrepair captioned "Woodland home ten years later in the hands of Farmer Slack". |
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Description: | Hand-lettered Civil War commemorative roster of Company D, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, known as the Stoughton Light Guard. The background is decor... |
Date: | 1848 |
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Description: | The first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, with the Mississippi River in the foreground. Although dated 1830, this scene was actually painted by Henry Le... |
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