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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 10 25 1912 |
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| Description: | Five young women walking across a field. The hand-lettered caption reads: "The hiker's stride." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A sightseeing party wanders among cows and Native American burial mounds near the popular picnic area at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendot... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The Lighty house, the home of W.H. Lighty. Left to right: Paul, Harold, Russell, and W.H. Lighty. The house is on the Highlands rural delivery route numb... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 03 1918 |
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| Description: | A Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplane / biplane in flight over the Weber Farm south of Lake Monona. Titled in the album "The First Aeroplane in Madison". "The f... |
| Date: | 09 03 1918 |
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| Description: | Three Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplanes / biplanes parked in a field with onlookers. An automobile is parked nearby. Airplanes have a black cat symbol in a c... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of house with porch and yard on highway 113. Snow is on the ground. |
| Date: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms stands next to a damaged 1946 Chevrolet which had been rented from Friede Rent-A-Car. Arms and Bert Rogers had been traveling to Milwaukee in th... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Loraine Adkins of Madison, Wisconsin ready to participate with the Hoofbeat Ridge Drill Team of Mazomanie at the Midwest Horse Fair in the spring of 1992 o... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of Madison Mobile Homes, with a three-quarter view of a mobile home parked in a clearing near a wooded area on a shoreline, with the slogan "Liv... |
| Date: | 06 24 2007 |
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| Description: | One-page autographed menu for a six-course food and wine benefit dinner at L'Etoile Restaurant for Wisconsin Homegrown Lunch, a program promoting the use o... |
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| Description: | A laughing young man and woman sitting on a stile. The man is wearing a straw hat and bow tie; she is wearing a striped dress and matching jacket. The woma... |
| Date: | 06 30 1895 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in the right foreground near a tall plant, perhaps corn. In the center is a square-shaped pond with high banks. A man is in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the Peck Cabin, after the painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. Caption at bottom reads: "First House in Madison. 1837." |
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| Description: | Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | The Schuepbach Farm off East Clayton Road, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol in the far distance. |
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