Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield. |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | Advertising handbill for reapers designed by A.J. Cook and manufactured by Hatch and Whitely of Springfield in Clark County, Ohio. |
Date: | 1857 |
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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... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma... |
Date: | 1857 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Drawing of the Porcupine Mountains on Lake Superior. A deer is standing in the lake drinking water. A man is on the rock ledge above the shoreline and is a... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | A view of the Synagogue with a one-horse carriage in the foreground. Hölzlhuber occupied the position of organist and choirmaster for this congregation unt... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Hölzlhuber journeyed from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, and from there took a train south to Cave City, from which passengers boarded a stagecoach for t... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest.... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | On an excursion to the South in November 1859, Hölzlhuber made the three-day trip on the steamboat Planet from St. Louis to New Orleans. In the harb... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill. |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Handbill for Kirby's American Harvester, a combined reaper and mower. The advertisement features two line drawings of the machine in use, as a reaper and ... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Handbill for the Eagle Mower and Reaper distributed by A.G. Mott, general agent for Maryland. Includes the text "the best grass and grain harvester in use.... |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | The U.S. Hotel was constructed in 1852 by Hugh Phillips to be used for mercantile purposes, but later transformed into the hotel. A group of people are sta... |
Date: | 1858 |
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Description: | View on North Water Street, showing the building in which the Bank of Sparta was founded. A man is walking beside a oxen pulling a covered wagon. |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Broadside advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by what was then known as C.H. McCormick & Co. Features an illustration of the reape... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Handbill containing directions for putting together and operating McCormick's reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Headline over illustration of t... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | Handbill advertising McCormick's Patent Virginia Reaper, manufactured by C.H. McCormick & Co. Includes an illustration of the reaper in use. One man is dri... |
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