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| Date: | 12 02 1855 |
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| Description: | The Capital House bill of fare for Sunday, December 2, 1855. Proprietors were Nelson & Russell. |
| 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: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the five-story tall mill erected at the outlet of the Yahara Creek by Leonard J. Farwell. This engraving appears in Statistics of Dane County,... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Madison Brewery operated from John Rodermund that appeared in the 1858 City Directory. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | A horse-drawn carriage is crossing the bridge. Right of center is the S. Ball's Candy Store. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the exterior of the Shopiere Flouring Mill. Several men, some in a horse-drawn wagon are in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Map showing roads, mills, and rivers. Date conjectured from presence of Ensign’s Mill and Pitt’s Mill and location of Nekoosa. |
| Date: | 08 02 1858 |
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| Description: | One-page menu of the Mystical Seven secret society and fraternal order, with an emblem with a skull surrounded by a laurel wreath, and a crossed serpent, s... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | This map show plats including plat names, plat numbers, and some lot owner's names. Relief is shown by hachures. The map includes line drawings of Juneau B... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | This map is ink, pen, and watercolor on paper and shows plat of the town, local streets, lots by number, U.S. subdivisions in red lines, Mineral Point Rail... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | This map of Wisconsin and Minnesota shows proposed railroads, copper mines, marshes, villages, mills, reefs, notes about shorelines, and references to mini... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | This map shows townships, villages, Indian villages, railroads, roads, mills, prairies, swamps, and canals. An inset map shows a plat of the copper distric... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored engraving showing fur company agents making a distribution of goods to Indians, some of whom are seated on the ground, in a fenced courtyard w... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina... |
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