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| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
| 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: | 1865 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showing the first three buildings on campus, South Hall (left), University Hall [Bascom Hall] (center), and North Ha... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of George W. Peck, 2nd Lieutenant, Company E, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of George W. Peck standing next to a chair. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | View from unpaved Wisconsin Avenue looking east toward the third Wisconsin State Capitol sometime prior to the completion of the dome (1869). The portion o... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Soldiers of the 3rd Wisconsin Artillery at Camp Randall man a cannon on wheels, while other men on foot and on horseback follow. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Soldiers in formation at Camp Randall during winter. The season [there appears to be snow on the ground] and the tents indicate that this image was made in... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Oil painting of Samuel Klauber one of Madison's first Jewish settlers and founder of Gates of Heaven Synagogue. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of view from the Capitol looking southwest by south. In the foreground are the Capitol Park, the First Baptist Church on Carroll Street; and be... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | The Third Wisconsin State Capitol before the completion of the dome. After all four wings of the Third Capitol were completed, the second Capitol was demo... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground, with several residences an... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground with several residences an... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking up State Street toward the second Wisconsin State Ca... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. North Hall is in the foreground with several residences and... |
| Date: | 11 11 1861 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin campus. North Hall and South Hall are in the foreground. Lake Men... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the exterior of the Second Ward School House, copied from the 1868 Madison City Directory. |
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