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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
Description: Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting of the Peck Cabin representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The "Peck Cabin" is a variation signed "M...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1837
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o...
Painting

Double Lock Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C...
Painting

Cedar Rapids Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center....The third, another rural river scene, whose composit...
Painting

Rapid Croche, Fox River Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: Painting of the Eben Peck cabin, the first house in Madison, was built in June, 1837. Text on back of art board: "Madison in June 1837." Painting likely ba...

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