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| Learn about what it was like to live in Madison, Wisconisin during middle of the 19th century. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Madison Fire Company No. 2 silk banner, 1857. (Museum object #1951.288) |
| The Lloyd Jones Family Album |
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| Read about the career of The Capital Times founder Richard Lloyd Jones and browse through photographs he and his wife took while living in Madison. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Madison Style ice boat model built by the Bernard family, c. 1917, rebuilt 1977. (Museum object #1983.292) |
| U.S. General Land Office Surveyors' Field Notes and Plat Maps |
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| Hand-drawn township plat maps and surveyors field notes about tree cover, soils, streams, rock outcroppings, villages, trails and roads from 1833-1866. |
| The Watercolors of Winifred Ford |
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| Read about the life and career of painter Winifred Ford who created watercolors of historic Madison residences. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Violin and bow played by Madison, Wisconsin pioneer Rosaline Peck, 1830s. (Museum object #1969.304.2,A) |
| James T. Potter's Photos |
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| View this image collection of architectural details of places in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Early hand-carved table made by Levi Havemann, a German immigrant to Madison, c. 1860. (Museum object #1998.21.1) |
| Learn about interlibrary lending of Society materials. |
| This collection contains photographs taken by Kalleen Mortensen, a Madison, WI resident and long-time member of the Deer Park Buddhist community. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Regiment |
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| The 42nd Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Randall in Madison and mustered into service on September 7, 1864. |
| An intimate look at family, architecture, interiors and fashion in Victorian Wisconsin between 1885 and 1900 |
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| Learn about the lives of upper-middle class Wisconsinites in the Victorian period between 1885 and 1900. |
| Study of a Neighborhood |
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| Discover the history of Madison, Wisconsin's Willy St. neighborhood through the Wisconsin Historical Society's image gallery |
| This image gallery depicts Madison, Wisconsin, as a hub of dynamic social, political and cultrual change from the 1960s through the mid-1970s. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Regiment |
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| The 45th Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Randall in Madison on November 8, 1864. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Regiment |
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| The 49th Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Randall in Madison between December 24, 1864, and March 5, 1865. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Regiment |
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| The 53rd Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Randall in Madison during March and April 1865, at the very end of the war. |
| Wisconsin Civil War Regiment |
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| The 46th Wisconsin Infantry was organized at Camp Randall in Madison and mustered into service on March 2, 1865, only a few weeks before the war ended. |
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