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Painting

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...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Photograph

Capital Brewery

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of employees, along with young children, posed around a wagon loaded with barrels of beer in front of Hausmann's Capital Brewery at the corne...
Photograph

U.S. Post Office & Courthouse Under Construction

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Looking south at rear of the building nearly complete, with barrels and lamppost.
Photograph

Hess Barrel Company

Date: 06 14 1927
Description: Loading barrels into a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad car behind the Hess Barrel Company (cooperage) at about 1950 Atwood Avenue. Stacks of oak barrel h...
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Photograph

Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her Two Girls

Date: 1877
Description: Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her two girls are standing in front of a frame house that has lathe on roof for climbing. Vines are growing in window boxes and ...
Photograph

Frank Hess Sr. Trimming Cattails on Barrels

Date: 1952
Description: Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, trimming cattails, used to cauk oak barrels.
Photograph

Barrel MakingTools and Cattails

Date: 1952
Description: Barrel making tools and cattails, use for cauking barrels, at the Hess Cooperage.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
Drawing

Benedict Goldenberger Shack

Date: 08 28 1885
Description: Sketch of the shack from which Benedict Goldenberger sold cider vinegar. Possibly on Murray Street.
Photograph

Ideal Body Company Truck

Date: 
Description: Man holding a wooden barrel next to a truck modified by the Ideal Body Company parked on the street in front of the Ideal Body Company building on Park Str...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 
Description: View down the unpaved Military Road. Two boys stand in the street on the left near the State Bank of Dane building. Near the railroad crossing, there is a ...
Photograph

McFarland Depot

Date: 1923
Description: View down railroad tracks of the McFarland train depot. Two men are on the platform, and a cow grazes in the grass on the left.
Photograph

Gray Gables Lake Kegonsa — F.G. Lane

Date: 1932
Description: View of a lakeside cottage with a man, woman and boy standing in front. A bench is on the left near the lake. Another cottage is on the right in the backgr...
Photograph

Main Street Looking South

Date: 1911
Description: View down center of Main Street. On the left is a storefront with large display windows and a barrel near the entrance. In front is a horse and buggy hitch...
Photograph

East Main Street Looking West

Date: 1913
Description: View down Main Street, with a railroad crossing at the far end of the street. On the left is a shoe repair store, lumber business, and a lunch room with a ...
Photograph

Building Site and Crane

Date: 1925
Description: A building site with "O'Dea and Shafer, Engineers and Contractors" construction crew, crane and other equipment. On the photograph album binding on the lef...
Photograph

216 Campbell Street

Date: 1905
Description: View of the house at 216 Campbell Street. Construction materials are piled about the property, suggesting it was recently built. A small group of people ar...
Photograph

Mendota Shoreline with University of Wisconsin-Madison Boathouse

Date: 1896
Description: View from sloped lawn of the Lake Mendota shoreline, with the Olin boathouse in the foreground, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse on the ri...

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