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| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Tonyawatha Spring Hotel from a descriptive brochure. The hotel opened in 1879 and was destroyed by fire on July 31, 1895. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Madison Hospital, 413-415 South Baldwin Street. Also known as the Gill & Boyd Hospital, opened in 1889 and existed for just a few years. |
| Date: | 12 02 1855 |
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| Description: | The Capital House bill of fare for Sunday, December 2, 1855. Proprietors were Nelson & Russell. |
| Date: | 06 27 1839 |
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| Description: | Invitation for Darwin Clark to the Independence Ball on the 4th of July, 1839 at the American Hotel. |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Invitation to the annual ball at Turner Hall, sponsored by Madison's Andrew Proudfit Steam Fire Engine Company #2. The company, which was organized in 1870... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Plan of the Senate Chamber for the second Wisconsin State Capitol (the first in Madison), showing the seating arrangement. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Plan of the Assembly Hall in the second Wisconsin State Capitol showing the seating arrangement. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Illustration of an early design for the 3rd Wisconsin State Capitol, the second in Madison. Caption reads: "State Capitol at Madison — Donnel & Kutzbock, A... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A Capital City Mills advertisement from the 1894-1895 Madison City Directory. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | An illustration of the Capital House, from the 1858-1859 Madison City Directory. The first-class hotel opened in 1853, was later bought by L.B. Vilas and c... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | An advertisement for John N. Jones, Dealer in Hardware, which appeared in the 1873 Madison City Directory. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Madison Brewery operated from John Rodermund that appeared in the 1858 City Directory. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the first capitol building built in Madison used as an illustration by the Madison Mutual Insurance Company, a first insurance company, the di... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Hall, built in 1870, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Below the image is the caption "Female College of Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 12 19 1853 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin State bank check in the amount of $12.00 written to Fredericka Lindenthald from Samuel Marshall. |
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