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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
Description: Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built...
Print

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 06 1837
Description: Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ...
Photograph

Children Eating at Kiddie Camp

Date: 07 09 1931
Description: Children eating at Kiddie Camp.
Photograph

Bible Camp

Date: 08 15 1947
Description: Group portrait of children and adults at a Free Methodist Church bible camp, with cabins in the background, taken for Reverend James Shaw. The site had bee...
Photograph

Bible Camp

Date: 08 15 1947
Description: Outdoor group portrait of children and adults at a bible camp, with cabins in the background, taken for Reverend James Shaw. The site was the Hallelujah Ca...
Photograph

Girls in YWCA Camp Bunks

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Young girls posing on the top and bottom bunks at YWCA's Camparia Olbrich on Lake Mendota. In the upper bunk, left to right: Kathryn Eye, Barbara Fellows,...
Postcard

Colladay Park

Date: 1909
Description: View across water toward Colladay Park on Lake Kegonsa. Cabins are on the shoreline among trees. Caption reads: Colladay Park, Lake Kegonsa."
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
Photograph

Boy Scout Troop 5

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scout Troop 5, with Scoutmaster J.J. Feeney and Assistant Scoutmaster Bill Lavin. Photograph was taken in front of their new ...
Photograph

Girl Scouts at Camp Brandenburg

Date: 07 23 1945
Description: Four girl scouts and a camp counselor starting a fire in a camp fireplace as they start to prepare dinner at Camp Brandenburg near Springfield Corners. Pi...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting of the Peck Cabin representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The "Peck Cabin" is a variation signed "M...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1837
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o...
Photograph

Assembly Chamber before Restoration

Date: 1988
Description: Assembly Chamber, in the Wisconsin State Capitol, before restoration in 1988. Above the skylight can be seen long fluorescent light fixtures which are no l...
Photograph

The Trial of Chief Oshkosh by Judge Doty

Date: 
Description: Painting, in the Wisconsin State Capitol, of "The Trial of Chief Oshkosh by Judge Doty," one of four mural paintings by Albert Herter on the south wall of ...
Photograph

YMCA Camp Wakanda

Date: 08 04 1953
Description: Fritz Ragatz (foreground) and (from left) Billy Garrott, Frank Kellogg, and Jack Kendall sitting in front of the fireplace in one of the cabins at YMCA's C...
Photograph

Norwegian Log Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior of a cabin in Nissedahle (Little Norway).
Photograph

Granary

Date: 
Description: Exterior of the granary in Nissedahle (Little Norway).
Photograph

Norwegian Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior of a two-story cabin in Nissedahle (Little Norway). There is a cafe on the first floor.
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park on Highway US-18/US-12/WI-73

Date: 
Description: Exterior of a gas station/restaurant and the entrance to the Triangle Tourist Park.
Photograph

Triangle Tourist Park US-18

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view from road of gas station and "dine and dance" restaurant on Highway US-18/US-12, outside the Triangle Tourist Park. The establishment offers ...

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