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Madison City Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: View of City Hospital, which became known as Madison General Hospital and is now Meriter Hospital. It was designed by Madison architects Louis W. Claude an...
Postcard

Central High School

Date: 1915
Description: Central High School, designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert and partially razed in 1986. Caption reads: "High School, Madison, Wis."
Photograph

Gay Building

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the neoclassical Gay Building, named after Madison developer Leonard W. Gay, at 16 N Carroll Street, one of the first high-rise buildings ...
Photograph

200 Block of State Street in Winter

Date: 1910
Description: View across street towards the north side of the 200 block of State Street between Fairchild and Henry Streets. This side was free of saloons. The south si...
Photograph

Madison Fuller Opera House Interior

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of the Fuller Opera House looking over seats to the stage with 1,200 seats on a main floor, a second-level balcony, a third-level gallery, and ten...
Photograph

Madison Capitol Fence and Pinckney Street

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Description: A view of the Capitol Park and Pinckney Street taken approximately 1885-1890. The building in the center, at the intersection of Pinckney and East Washingt...
Drawing

Second Ward School House

Date: 1868
Description: Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory.
Photograph

City Hall and the Fuller Opera House

Date: 1890
Description: City Hall at the intersection of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue and the Fuller Opera House on Mifflin Street. Snow on the ground. Both buildings were...
Drawing

Bruen's Block

Date: 1853
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...
Drawing

Madison Capital House

Date: 1853
Description: Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Drawing

Madison Female Academy

Date: 1848
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...
Photograph

United States Sugar Company Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the United States Sugar Company factory next to railroad tracks on Atwood Avenue. The building was occupied in 1980 by Garver Feed & Suppl...
Photograph

Capitol Park Fountain

Date: 1898
Description: The replica of the Centennial Fountain in the Capitol Park, where people relax on a park bench. This view looks toward the intersection of Main and Carroll...
Photograph

Winnequah on Lake Monona

Date: 1900
Description: Cyanotype print of Winnequah on Lake Monona with small buildings and three platforms for swings. A note on the back of the print reads: "The high swing was...
Photograph

Billboard at Bascom Hill

Date: 1909
Description: A billboard displays events at the foot of Bascom Hill from the bottom east side on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Bascom Hall with dome (form...
Photograph

Upper Campus from Library

Date: 1900
Description: The view of Bascom Hill and upper campus of the University of Wisconsin Madison seen from the roof of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Photograph

Cows on Observatory Hill

Date: 1900
Description: Fenced-in, the cattle find a grassy pasture of Observatory Hill below Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Photograph

Aerial View of Lower Campus

Date: 1945
Description: View of the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes Bascom Hill, Wisconsin Historical Society, Memorial Union and the Armory (Red Gym ...
Photograph

Air View of University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 1945
Description: Aerial view of Bascom Hill, Bascom Hall, Wisconsin Historical Society on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus with Lake Mendota on the right.
Photograph

Aerial View of University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1926
Description: Originally titled 'Recent Aeroplane View of University Campus', the view of the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Red Gym, Science Hall and Bascom Hall wit...

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