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| Description: | Interior of the drawing room at the Governor's Mansion. The room is furnished with antique furniture, draperies and chandeliers. A woman's portrait is hang... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the reception room at the Governor's Mansion. A U.S. Flag and a Wisconsin flag are flanking the doorway. The state seal of Wisconsin is on... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the library at the Governor's mansion. The walls are covered with wood paneling, draperies are on an arched window on the left, and a mirr... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of East High School, with a flagpole in front. Caption reads: "East High School, Madison, Wis." |
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| Description: | View across intersection towards the public library on the corner of Mifflin Street and Fairchild Street. |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "Oscar Mayer & Co., established in 1883, is one of the largest meat processors in the U.S. The Oscar F. Mayer memorial fountain, in ... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the near east side dominated by the smokestacks of Madison Gas & Electric. Snow is on the rooftops of buildings, and chimneys are spewing ... |
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| Description: | View of the steps of the Langdon Street entrance to the Historical Society building. The armory (red gym) is across the street in the background. Caption r... |
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| Description: | Text on back reads: "Interior of a Wisconsin Indian wigwam about 1600 A.D. Diorama at the Museum, State Historical Society of Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard of a crowd on and around the front steps of the State Historical Society building watching a battalion drill (out of the picture). So... |
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| Description: | A Kodachrome postcard of the exterior of Edgewood College. Text on reverse reads: "Edgewood College - Madison, Wisconsin Edgewood is one of Madison's o... |
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| Description: | View of the Terrace at Memorial Union with students and other people sitting around tables in colorful Terrace chairs. Sailboats are out on the lake. |
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| Description: | View of the boathouse and Red Gym from Lake Mendota. Men are carrying a long boat above their heads on the dock. A group of men is gathered at the boathous... |
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| Description: | Color postcard looking up Bascom Hill towards Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin campus. There is a statue of Lincoln at the top of the hill. Autom... |
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| Description: | Facade of the main building of the College of Agriculture on the University of Wisconsin campus. A "W" flower bed is in front. Columns are at the entrance.... |
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| Description: | View of Picnic Point from Observatory Hill on the University of Wisconsin campus. Autumn color is in the trees. |
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| Description: | A sepia-toned photographic postcard of Picnic Point as seen from Observatory Drive. The lake is frozen and snow is on the ground. |
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| Description: | Sepia-toned photographic postcard view looking out towards the Picnic Point Peninsula jutting out into Lake Mendota. A walking path is on the left Caption ... |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards a man sitting in the grass near the Yahara River at Tenney Park. In the distance, people are on a footbridge crossing the rive... |
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| Description: | View across water towards the bath house and bathing beach at Brittingham Park on Monona Bay. Caption reads: "Bath House, Brittingham Park, Madison, Wis." |
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