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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

Automobile Accident on County Trunk M

Date: 04 15 1934
Description: Onlookers surveying damage from a fatal two-car collision. The view is looking south on County Trunk Highway M, between Speedway Road and Middleton. In the...
Photograph

Rural Automobile Accident

Date: 08 18 1939
Description: View from front of Capital City Culvert Company automobile involved in an accident with a Phillips Produce Company egg truck at the intersection of County ...
Painting

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...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
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

Car Crash

Date: 06 12 1932
Description: Car accident on County Trunk K that killed four members of the Price family. The scene was photographed for the Dane County coroner Campbell.
Map or Atlas

Dane County Rural Delivery

Date: 1910
Description: Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport.
Photograph

Farm Road between Fields

Date: 12 01 1962
Description: A farm road between fields in late sunlight, looking towards Mounds Creek in the vicinity of CTH F.
Photograph

Early Morning at Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance.
Photograph

Stone Bridge Covered in Snow on Edgewood Drive

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: Stone bridge on Edgewood Drive, formerly an underpass for cows to access the lake. There are buildings further up the hill in the background.
Photograph

Aerial View of Oscar Mayer Plant

Date: 1942
Description: Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P....
Photograph

1908 Ford Touring Car

Date: 05 02 1935
Description: Man with bushy moustache standing next to a 1908 Ford Touring Car in a farm yard.
Photograph

Car Crash with Two Vehicles

Date: 06 12 1932
Description: View across road towards a car crash, with two vehicles on the side of the road. Taken for the coroner at the scene of an accident in Token Creek. Four Pri...
Photograph

Piper Brothers Farm

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Piper Brothers farm scene, 4718 Odana Road near Midvale.
Photograph

Boy Scouts Planting a Tree

Date: 11 12 1931
Description: Boy Scouts planting a Norway spruce tree on "George Washington Drive," a stretch of road a mile long on Highway 51, extending north from the intersection w...
Photograph

Highway View, Car on Highway 51

Date: 10 20 1931
Description: View looking down road (east-south east) towards the rear of a car parked in the right lane of a two lane highway. This was the scene of an accident, and i...
Photograph

Accident Scene on Highway 51

Date: 10 20 1931
Description: Accident scene on Highway 51, rural area. Caption at bottom reads: "High #51 — Looking West — Northwest — October 20, 1931 2:00 P.M."
Photograph

County Highway G, Mount Vernon, Looking South

Date: 08 10 1931
Description: County Highway G, Mount Vernon, looking south, taken for Travelers Insurance Co. Dane County.
Photograph

Wrecked Ford

Date: 06 30 1931
Description: Wrecked Ford upside down on Fair Oaks Avenue.

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