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Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 1890
Description: Color plat map of Sun Prairie.
Map or Atlas

Dane County Rural Delivery

Date: 1910
Description: Map of Dane County rural delivery in Madison and the town of Westport.
Photograph

Air View of Downtown

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of downtown, including river.
Photograph

Air View of Black Earth

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Black Earth, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Aerial View of Lake Mendota Shoreline

Date: 1956
Description: Aerial view looking northeast from a point over the east end of Middleton, showing the west end of Lake Mendota (right mid-ground). Fox Bluff juts into the...
Photograph

Aerial View of Stoughton and Yahara River

Date: 11 1928
Description: Aerial view of Stoughton including the central business district, the Yahara River, and the surrounding countryside.
Photograph

Aerial View of Stoughton

Date: 11 1928
Description: Aerial view of Stoughton, including the central business district, residential areas, the Yahara River, and the surrounding countryside.
Photograph

Farwell's Madison Mills

Date: 
Description: Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota.
Photograph

Buildings at Little Norway

Date: 1948
Description: Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: main lodge (formerly Haugen barn), summer kitchen, tool house, and guest house.
Photograph

Little Norway Bridge

Date: 1955
Description: "Little Norway" bridge.
Photograph

Little Norway Buildings

Date: 1948
Description: Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: tool house, Norway house, Haugen homestead. The wagon in foreground is a kubberulle; the wheels are sec...
Drawing

House on River

Date: 08 31 1885
Description: Pencil on paper drawing of large house on hill above river, with rowboat and boathouse. The house has three stories, four chimneys, mansard roof, and long...
Photograph

Cows Drinking in Yahara River

Date: 1897
Description: Yahara River at the Steensland Bridge. A man stands on the bank.
Photograph

Tenney Park Breakwater Under Construction

Date: 07 22 1949
Description: Tenney Park breakwater and Lake Mendota. The city of Madison was able to resume construction at no cost. The construction company tearing up East Washingto...
Photograph

Farwell's Mills

Date: 
Description: City flour mills, on the Catfish River (Yahara River). The mill burned down in the fall of 1873.
Photograph

Fish River

Date: 
Description: View of the Fish River, used at the Wisconsin Fish Hatchery. Rows of trees line the river's edge.
Photograph

Lover's Lane

Date: 1912
Description: A bridge with both a wooden walkway for pedestrians and a dirt road for automobiles. Two men and a horse are standing on the other side of the bridge.
Photograph

Bridge Across Sugar River

Date: 1912
Description: View across a railroad bridge with metal truss system over the Sugar River.
Photograph

Scenic View

Date: 
Description: View from a bridge looking down a river.
Photograph

Old Mill

Date: 1925
Description: View along shoreline of a mill on a river. There is a man loading bags onto a cart at the front. There is a wooded hill on the right.

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