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: | 1896 |
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Description: | A gathering of iceboats and their captains on Lake Mendota. |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Man in a rowboat on Lake Monona with a view of the city in the background. |
Date: | 1893 |
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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... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
Date: | 1823 |
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Description: | In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th... |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Two men pose on a boat docked at the Askew Steamboat Landing on Lake Monona off South Carroll Street. The old Governor Harvey residence is in the backgroun... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Engraving of an elevated view of Science Hall, Chemical Laboratory and Machine Shop on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
Date: | 1856 |
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Description: | This map show the surveyed southern part of state and includes "profile of the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road." Counties are shown in pink, green, blu... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | This map shows U.S. land offices, completed railroads, railroad land grant limits, lakes, rivers, and Indian reservations. Communities, lakes, and rivers a... |
Date: | 06 1837 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | This map shows lakes, rivers, state, county, and town boundaries, as well as railroads completed, in progress, and contemplated. The map includes a color d... |
Date: | 04 24 1899 |
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Description: | Partial view of a boathouse at the foot of North Carroll Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built for the city of Madison. The University of Wiscon... |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Lake Superior shoreline, with terraces leading to the beach. A canoe is on the shoreline. |
Date: | 1850 |
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Description: | Pastoral scene depicting a small bay on the Island of St. Ignace in Lake Superior with canoes on the rocky beach, two men conversing on a blanket in the fo... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | Plat map of the Town of Madison (Township 7N, Range 9E), from Volume 4, Federal Survey Plat Books. |
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