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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 06 1837
Description: Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ...
Photograph

Installing Rock Wool Insulation

Date: 11 21 1936
Description: Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street.
Photograph

Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was...
Photograph

Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P...
Photograph

State Office Building

Date: 06 07 1930
Description: Basement of State Office Building, 1 W. Wilson Street, under construction, facing towards Wilson Street.
Photograph

Combine on Hill Farm

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Two men operating Case 9-foot combine with a group of men observing, at University of Wisconsin Hill Farm.
Photograph

Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 07 10 1929
Description: Dane County Tuberculosis Sanatorium under construction, with three men with a steam shovel clearing trees. 1202 Northport Drive. J.P. Cullen, Contractor.
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

Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

Date: 
Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
Photograph

Vilas Park Island Clean Up Campaign

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug...
Photograph

Pine Bluff Observatory Site

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff.
Postcard

Hauling Milk at Hering Farm

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Description: Robert Carl Hering and his son Alexander Hering are standing next to a horse-drawn wagon filled with milk containers. Farm buildings are in the background....
Photograph

Two Men Scraping Hives

Date: 04 1934
Description: Two men scraping diseased hives.
Photograph

Man Burning Beehives

Date: 04 1934
Description: Scorching hive bodies that were infected with American Foul Brood.
Photograph

Bascom Hill Burial Excavation

Date: 08 1918
Description: Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o...
Photograph

Turvill Family Picking Strawberries

Date: 1897
Description: The Turvill family picking strawberries on their family farm. Five family members, men and women, are crouched in the field picking, and a young girl stand...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

Date: 
Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Ladies' Hall

Date: 1900
Description: A southeast view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ladies' Hall. In the foreground two men are working in the road among piles of dirt and rock.
Photograph

Madison Area Golf Courses Open for Season

Date: 04 10 1964
Description: Golf pro Kully Schlicht drives a tractor to manicure the grounds at Blackhawk Country club.
Photograph

Farmall H with Soil Pulverizers

Date: 1947
Description: Three-quarter view from left rear of a man driving a Farmall H with soil pulverizers, with grass seeding attachment and seed box. Farm of Tom Stolen, Route...

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