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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol (the second State Capitol, the first in Madison). Illustration from the American Encyclopedia, Columbus, 1859. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the... |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats. |
| Date: | 1655 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of a farmstead with multiple pine trees. A road is in foreground with a carriage driven by two horses, and a man in the carriage. A dog runs in front ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View of an estate covered with various plants and trees. Two people stand on a sidewalk in front of the distant estate, looking towards it. Two horses dra... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | D.L. Fairchild residence from the street, with a stagecoach and pedestrian in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | H.S. Winsor residence, with a stagecoach in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the American House at 1 North Pinckney Street. It burned down in a fire in 1868. |
| Date: | 05 1862 |
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| Description: | "Hamburg Landing, 4 miles below Pittsburg Landing, Commisary [sic] Depot of Gen. Hallek's Army." An encampment with soldiers along the river with a ... |
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| Description: | Design for Wisconsin Centennial 3 cent postage stamp with an agriculture and industries theme. |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Front and State Streets, showing the first houses in La Crosse. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Detail from atlas of the home of H.M. Curtis who settled in 1840. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Detail from atlas of the home of Almon Jewell who settled in 1845. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Detail from atlas of the home of Z. Short who settled in 1842. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Harvey Hospital, or the Soldiers' Orphans Home. The main octagon section was the home of Governor Farwell, and the wing of wood was added in 1862 and used ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the Octagon House with a horse and carriage in the foreground. |
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