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Bird's-Eye View of Madison, Wisconsin and Its Surroundings

Date: 1870
Description: Bird's-eye map of Madison. The Lakeside House resort is in the foreground, which burned in 1877, in what is now Olin Park.
Photograph

Denniston House Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Denniston House Hotel.
Photograph

Buena Vista House

Date: 
Description: View of the hotel from across the street through trees and a fence. The hotel was later called the Cobblestone Inn. A small building on the left near the h...
Postcard

Eau Claire Hotel: The Third Structure

Date: 1922
Description: Elevated view of the hotel, with several cars parked on both sides of the hotel, and pedestrians strolling on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "The Eau Claire...
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1885
Description: View across unpaved Main Street, with storefronts on the right, including a restaurant and meat market. Caption reads: "Main Street".
Postcard

Hotel Retlaw

Date: 
Description: Exterior of the Hotel Retlaw, with cars on the street and pedestrians on the sidewalks. Caption reads: "Hotel Retlaw, Fond du Lac, Wis."
Postcard

Lower Main Street

Date: 1895
Description: View of lower Main Street lined with electric power lines and storefronts. Caption reads: "Lower Main Street, Fort Atkinson, Wis."
Postcard

Moor Baths

Date: 1920
Description: View woards spring house and lagoon. Caption reads: "Spring House and Lagoon at the Moor (Mud) Baths, Waukesha, Wis."
Postcard

Moor Baths

Date: 1920
Description: View of the main building of the Moor (Mud) Baths. Caption reads: "Main Building, Waukesha Moor (Mud) Bath Co., Waukesha, Wis. 'Open all the year 'round.'"
Photograph

Soo Line Depot

Date: 1915
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Chicago, Milwaukee, & Sault Sainte Marie Railway Depot. In the background on the right is the Star Restaurant. Capt...
Postcard

Hotel Lewis

Date: 1900
Description: Diagonal view across road toward the hotel. Caption reads: "Hotel Lewis, Sparta, Wis."
Photograph

Hotel Blodgett

Date: 1925
Description: The Hotel Blodgett, between the Paulsen Shoe Company and Trio Theater. Caption reads: "Hotel Blodgett Marshfield Wis."
Photograph

Highway Department Garage

Date: 1930
Description: Shawano County Highway Department garage.
Photograph

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: View down center of unpaved street. A sign on the building on the left corner reads: "The Upham & Russell Co. Hardware and Metals". A barber's pole is on t...
Photograph

Union House

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior of the Union House. Three men are standing on the sidewalk in front.
Postcard

Draw Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: View down unpaved road towards a drawbridge in Princeton. There is a hotel on the right. Caption reads: "Draw Bridge at Princeton, Wis."
Postcard

Exterior of the Imperial Hotel

Date: 
Description: Exterior of the Imperial Hotel, in Tokyo, Japan, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. A number of cars are parked in front of the hotel's entrance.
Photograph

Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" Airplane in Flight

Date: 09 03 1918
Description: A Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplane / biplane in flight over the Weber Farm south of Lake Monona. Titled in the album "The First Aeroplane in Madison". "The f...
Photograph

Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" Airplane in Madison

Date: 09 03 1918
Description: Side view of a Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" airplane / biplane parked in a field (probably Weber Farm south of Lake Monona) with onlookers nearby. Airplane has a ...
Photograph

Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" Airplane in Madison

Date: 09 03 1918
Description: A crowd of adults and children looks over a JN-4HG gunnery trainer airplane / biplane which has landed in a field. Airplane has a black cat symbol in a ci...

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