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Lane Residence

Date: 1860
Description: A general view of the Lane residence, which is the birthplace of Carrie Lane, later Carrie Chapman Catt, noted woman suffrage leader.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Fond du Lac

Date: 1867
Description: Birds eye drawing of Fond du Lac depicts street names and street layouts, houses, buildings, trees, and the Fond du Lac River. A reference key at the botto...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Ripon

Date: 1867
Description: Bird's-eye map of Ripon, with insets of points of interest.
Map or Atlas

Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin from Marr St. Methodist Church

Date: 1861
Description: Bird's-eye map of Fond du Lac, "drawn after nature," with a parade of soldiers marching down the street.
Photograph

Congregational Church

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of the Congregational church and surrounding buildings.
Photograph

State Prison

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Prison.
Photograph

St. Peter's Episcopal Church

Date: 1864
Description: Elevated view of St. Peter's Episcopal Church.
Photograph

Ceresco, Ripon, Wisconsin

Date: 1865
Description: Elevated view of Ceresco taken from Seward's hill.
Print

Civil War Regiment

Date: 1862
Description: Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno...
Print

Warning to Traitors

Date: 04 21 1861
Description: "Warning to Traitors." A threatening handbill warning against treasonable and dangerous utterances, signed by the "Vigilance Committee."
Photograph

West Hall, Ripon College

Date: 1867
Description: View across lawn toward the facade of West Hall at Ripon College. The entrance doors are elevated above ground level, reached by a large porch with curved ...
Photograph

Bartlett Hall, Ripon College

Date: 1867
Description: View across lawn toward the facade of Bartlett Hall at Ripon College, partially obscured by trees. Brick is the primary building material used, although la...
Photograph

Bartlett Hall, Ripon College

Date: 1867
Description: View across lawn toward the entrance and side of Bartlett Hall at Ripon College, partially obscured by trees. Decorative stone, wood, and brickwork all orn...
Photograph

Ripon College Commons

Date: 1867
Description: View across lawn toward the commons building at Ripon College, partially obscured by trees.
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1867
Description: View down sidewalk along a row of buildings at Ripon College.
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1867
Description: View across lawn toward a campus building at Ripon College. A stone commemorative marker is on the lawn on the right. Caption reads: "Scene, Ripon College,...
Photograph

Ripon College

Date: 1863
Description: View down hill across lawn toward a three-story building with a cupola at the bottom of the hill on the Ripon College campus. Caption reads: "View across t...
Map or Atlas

Map of Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin

Date: 1862
Description: This map shows townships and sections, landownership and acreages, roads, railroads, cemeteries, churches, schools, mills, and stone quarries. "Engraved, p...
Map or Atlas

Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

Date: 1867
Description: Bird’s-eye view map. Indexed for points of interest.
Photograph

Joseph Ager and Wife

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a man and a woman. Joseph Ager, a farmer from Ripon, is sitting. His wife is standing next to him with her hand on his shoulder...

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