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Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
Painting

Chippewa Falls

Date: 1850
Description: Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the...
Drawing

Madison Capital House

Date: 1853
Description: Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Photograph

Home on Picnic Point

Date: 1888
Description: View of shoreline along Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showing the home of Professor William Daniels, head of the Chemistry Dep...
Photograph

Moqui [Hopi] Indian Group

Date: 08 1898
Description: A Moqui [Hopi] Indian group of adults and children.
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Indian Mother and Child

Date: 1897
Description: Honani's daughter and her child, educated at Keam's Canyon School. There is sweet corn drying on the front of the house.
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Ojibwa-Pillager Battle Cabin

Date: 1898
Description: A cabin (possibly of Bug-u-ma-ge-sik), located near the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island.
Photograph

Men on Bear Island

Date: 10 10 1898
Description: W.A. Jones and an unidentified man, probably on Bear Island, the location of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle.
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Group on Bear Island

Date: 10 10 1898
Description: W.A. Jones and an unidentified group, probably on Bear Island, the location of the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle.
Photograph

Green Bay Residence

Date: 1880
Description: Exterior of home and lawn on a summer day, with a forest in the background and a picket fence in the foreground. The house has a lookout on the roof.
Photograph

Camp of the 7th Wisconsin

Date: 06 1862
Description: The 7th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment camp outside of Fredericksburg on the east side of the Rappahannock. Fredericksburg and a pontoon bridge lea...
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Union Soldiers at Camp Douglas

Date: 1862
Description: Large group of Union soldiers in formation by a barracks at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois.
Photograph

Cole-Burrows House

Date: 1878
Description: The Cole-Burrows house at 406 North Pinckney Street, built by Judge Orsamis Cole. He lived in it for several years before selling it to George B. Burrows.
Photograph

James Duane Doty Residence

Date: 1898
Description: The James Duane Doty residence on Doty Street (formerly Clymer Street), the first "Executive Mansion" in Madison, occupied in 1841-1844 by the Territorial ...
Photograph

James Duane Doty Residence

Date: 1898
Description: The James Duane Doty residence on Doty Street (formerly Clymer Street), the first "Executive Mansion" in Madison, occupied in 1841-1844 by the Territorial ...
Photograph

James Duane Doty Residence

Date: 1898
Description: The James Duane Doty residence on Doty Street (formerly Clymer Street), the first "Executive Mansion" in Madison, occupied in 1841-1844 by the Territorial ...
Photograph

James Duane Doty Residence

Date: 1898
Description: The James Duane Doty Residence on Doty Street (formerly Clymer Street), the first Executive Mansion in Madison, occupied in 1841-1844 by the Territorial Go...
Photograph

Breese Stevens Home

Date: 1886
Description: The Breese Stevens home.
Drawing

Lain Residence

Date: 1878
Description: View of the residence of Hon. Isaac Lain.
Postcard

Cutler House

Date: 1890
Description: Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W...

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