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Middleton Railroad Crossing

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th...
Photograph

Fitchburg Depot

Date: 1923
Description: Railway depot and railyard. Caption reads: "Depot and Yards Fitchburg, Wis."
Photograph

W.J. Hyland Plumbing Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Ford truck of Madison plumber W.J. Hyland parked outdoors.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Madison

Date: 1908
Description: Colored map showing a panoramic view of Madison in great detail. The Wisconsin State Capitol is located at the center, with Lake Mendota in the background ...
Photograph

Railroad Construction Crew

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Railroad construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking west up the 400 and 500 blocks of East Wilson Street.
Photograph

Railroad Construction Crew

Date: 10 27 1936
Description: Construction crew working on a Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, looking northwest along the 100 block of South Blair Street.
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 1890
Description: Color plat map of Sun Prairie.
Photograph

Railway Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: People and carriages in front of the depot-hotel Railway Hotel on West Washington Avenue. This was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Ticket Offi...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Middleton

Date: 1876
Description: Bird's-eye view of Middleton with an inset of a school house.
Photograph

Williamson Street

Date: 1874
Description: View looking southwest down the 600 block of Williamson Street to the East Madison Passenger Depot of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. There are frame ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Madison with insets of the University, Rasdall House, Vilas House, and the Wisconsin State Capitol. View includes cattail marsh, smokesta...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Madison

Date: 1885
Description: Bird's-eye map of Madison, State Capital of Wisconsin, County Seat of Dane County, with inset of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Mazomanie, Dane County, Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Mazomanie.
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....
Map or Atlas

Stoughton, Wis.

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye map of Stoughton.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin State Capitol (Second) and City Map

Date: 1855
Description: Part of George Harrison's "Map of the City of Madison," showing the development of the isthmus and the small size of the second Capitol (54' x 104') in com...
Photograph

Water Tank

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks towards a water tank.
Photograph

Aerial View of Ray-O-Vac Buildings

Date: 10 18 1945
Description: Madison Ray-O-Vac plant, 2313-25 Winnebago Street.
Photograph

Mazomanie across Railroad Tracks

Date: 1869
Description: View from across the railroad track. The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad car #4770 is in the foreground. The Freeman House, Carlisle House and Empire Stove...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Blooming Grove

Date: 1911
Description: Plat Map of Blooming Grove in "Atlas of Dane County, Wisconsin."

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