Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Three men taking a break during harvesting. Their horse-drawn reaper raked the grain into rows as it cut. In the background are various farmstead buildings... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | The facade of the McCormick family residence at 675 Rush Street, which takes up an entire block between Erie and Huron Streets. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. h... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | A group of men posing in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel, with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracke... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | An extended family of twenty-one people is gathered in the yard and on the porch of a large bracket style frame house that has carpenter's lace on its porc... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Family in yard around a table, with wood fence and frame house behind; one lady has a stereoscope in her lap. The house has an angular small addition with ... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | View of the superintendent's residence at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Rd.), a frame house on a stone fou... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898), his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen, and their eight children sit around a table in the yard of their hou... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | A man with an impressive beard, and a woman, are sitting together in a carriage with a collapsible top. A young girl is standing by the carriage while hold... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | A well-dressed family of four is posed in front of a stone fence with a picket gate. Behind them is a Greek Revival frame house with shuttered windows. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Victorian mansion at 123 S. Madison Street, built in 1870 and owned in 1875 by Samuel Chamberlain. It's mansard roof and iron trim help make the house an ... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Bechtel family seated in yard with croquet mallets in front of them with brick house that has soldier coursing at windows and fan window at third story. Da... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Family posed on board fence in front of upright and wing brick house that has glass trim around front door. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Family in front of fence with stone house that has a fan window on the side, two small stone additions and screen door in background. There is a log buildi... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Family seated in yard around set table drinking coffee. Behind them is an upright and wing stone house with a frame addition and latticework and board fenc... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | View of campers and tents at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | A pond at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road) with a sign reading "Brook Trout 3 and 4 years old." Funds f... |
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