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Photographer's Son in Boat

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Description: Laurie Peterson, son of the photographer, plays in boat. The photograph was originally titled "The Lone Boatsman".
Postcard

Vilas Park Carousel

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Description: Children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo), donated by the citizens of the Madison area. A stone bridge is in the ba...
Postcard

Vilas Park Carousel

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Description: View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Columbus

Date: 1868
Description: This 1868 birds-eye view depicts the buildings, streets, railroad, vegetation and topography of Columbus, Wisconsin. The high school, cemetery, railroad de...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of South Milwaukee

Date: 1906
Description: Bird's-eye map of South Milwaukee.
Map or Atlas

Waukesha, Wis.

Date: 1857
Description: Elevated view of Waukesha with two women wearing dresses with a boy in long pants and tam o'shanter hat in foreground against a split-rail fence. Beyond th...
Print

A View of the Habitations in Nootka Sound

Date: 1784
Description: Plate 41. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska.
Photograph

International K-5 Truck with Bottle Body

Date: 1941
Description: Man delivering beverages to the Silver Swan Inn with an International K-5 truck. The truck was equipped with a 161 x 76 bottle body. Photograph was taken f...
Photograph

Iron Bridge across Mississippi

Date: 1875
Description: "Iron Bridge across Mississippi" photographed during "The Norwegian Lutheran Synod held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1875," as described in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogu...
Photograph

Droster's Grocery Store

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view of Droster's Grocery store and filling station. The business was located on the corner of 1438 North Sherman Avenue and Logan Street and was ...
Photograph

Droster Store

Date: 1928
Description: Droster Store at the corner of Burke and Felland Road. It is currently the Burke Station Tavern.
Photograph

North Sherman Avenue

Date: 1929
Description: Residential block of North Sherman Avenue between McPherson and Farragut Street, across from Sherman School.
Photograph

Droster Farm

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior of the Droster farm located on Felland Road. The house was built in 1854.
Print

Civil War Regiment

Date: 1862
Description: Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno...
Photograph

Lone Tree South of Town

Date: 1984
Description: Lone tree on country roadside in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Sunday School Bus

Date: 1984
Description: Sunday school bus parked at a farm on Old State Road in DeKalb County.
Photograph

Arriving in Fuzhou

Date: 1985
Description: Arriving at the Fuzhou airport in China.
Photograph

Truck in Alley

Date: 1985
Description: Alley in a DeKalb neighborhood.
Photograph

Jardin Des Plantes

Date: 1991
Description: Woman walking the path at the Jardin Des Plantes in Paris, France.
Photograph

Darwin's Sandwalk

Date: 2000
Description: The Sandwalk of Charles Darwin, at the Darwin residence in Kent, England.

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