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View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward the Wisconsin State Capitol (Second)

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking up State Street toward the second Wisconsin State Ca...
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...
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South Wisconsin Avenue and West Main Street

Date: 1865
Description: South Wisconsin Avenue and West Main Street. Lake Monona is in the background and the Lucius Fairchild and David Atwood houses are at the upper left. The r...
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ...
Drawing

Gates of Heaven Synagogue

Date: 1864
Description: Early drawing of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue (on the left) and the Congregational Church (on the right), located on the 200 block of West Washington Aven...
Photograph

Rublee House

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of the Rublee house, among trees. The residence of Horace Rublee, formerly owned by J.A Ellis, on the east corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Gilma...
Map or Atlas

A Geological, Topographical, and Subterranean Map of the Brigham Lead Mines near the Blue Mounds, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: This 1867 manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the topography and geology of the Blue Mounds region in the Town of Brigham in Iowa County and the towns ...
Photograph

Thaddeus Dean's Residence

Date: 1866
Description: Carte-de-visite of local merchant Thaddeus Dean's residence, located at the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Gorham Street.
Map or Atlas

Primrose Plat Map

Date: 1861
Description: The township of Primrose, which is a detail from the plat map of Dane County.
Map or Atlas

Montrose Plat Map

Date: 1861
Description: The township of Montrose, which is a detail from a Dane County plat map.

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