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Postcard

Main Street on the Square

Date: 1900
Description: View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West."
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: A view down Main Street with horses and wagons tied at hitching posts.
Photograph

Aerial View of the Madison Isthmus

Date: 05 09 1908
Description: Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent...
Photograph

Rustic Bridge

Date: 1901
Description: A.G. Zimmerman parked on an artfully rustic, wooden bridge in his automobile, a "locomobile steamer," on Mendota Drive.
Print

A.H. Kayser Lumber Yard Advertisement

Date: 1901
Description: An advertisement for the A.H. Kayser lumberyard at 204 East Washington Avenue.
Postcard

Mendota State Hospital

Date: 1906
Description: View across the grounds towards the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute). Caption reads: "Mendota Hospital for Insane, Madison, Wis."
Photograph

Raymer Drive

Date: 1900
Description: Various views of Raymer Drive.
Photograph

Rustic Bridge

Date: 1902
Description: View of a rustic bridge over a ravine on Lake Mendota Drive in Shorewood Hills. Judge A.G Zimmerman is posing in his first automobile, also one of Madison'...
Photograph

State Street Looking West

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol of State Street looking west, toward the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Bascom Hall.
Photograph

University Avenue Looking Towards Downtown

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol along University Avenue, possibly from the chimney of University of Wisconsin-Madison Power Statio...
Photograph

Northeast Area of University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view looking northeast from the chimney of the Power Plant on University Avenue. The Chemistry Building is in the foreground, and Bascom Hall and ...
Photograph

Bird's-Eye View of Madison

Date: 1901
Description: Elevated view looking west down State Street towards the University of Wisconsin. Caption reads: "General View of the State University of Wisconsin, at Mad...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated view looking northeast from the chimney of the Power Plant on University Avenue. The Chemistry Building is in the foreground, and Bascom Hall and ...
Map or Atlas

Madison, Wisconsin and the Four Lakes Region

Date: 1909
Description: This 1909 bird's-eye view of Madison and the surrounding Four Lakes region shows roads, railroads, selected buildings in Madison, and points of interest ar...
Map or Atlas

Madison and the Four Lakes Region

Date: 1905
Description: This map shows roads, railroads, and location of Keyes Springs, now part of Monona. The map reads: "L.S. Smith, c.e., del. May, 1905" and "For further info...
Photograph

Aerial View of the Madison Isthmus

Date: 1908
Description: Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent...

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