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University Heights

Date: 1898
Description: University Heights from the Chemistry Building on University Avenue. View includes the University of Wisconsin-Madison football field, on the former site o...
Photograph

Two Women Outside a Log Cabin

Date: 
Description: Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan.
Photograph

100 Block East Gilman Street

Date: 08 02 1889
Description: View looking east down 100 block of East Gilman Street, from the intersection of East Gilman and North Pinckney Streets. The Mears House, 116 East Gilman, ...
Drawing

Madison Capital House

Date: 1853
Description: Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Photograph

Pupils Studying Corn

Date: 1913
Description: A group of children studying ears of corn outside small wooden shacks or corn cribs.
Photograph

Aerial View of City

Date: 1948
Description: Aerial view of downtown area, with the Fox River and neighboring suburbs.
Photograph

Aerial View of Green Bay

Date: 1920
Description: Aerial view of Green Bay's commercial district on the Fox River.
Photograph

General Sumner and Staff

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Description: General Edwin Vose Sumner and his staff officers: (from left to right) Capt. A.H. Cushing; Capt. L. Kipp; Major Clark; Lt. Col. Joseph Taylor; Major Genera...
Photograph

2nd Wisconsin Infantry Band

Date: 1861
Description: The brass band of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. In the past, the leader in the picture was identified as Hazard W. Titus, but it is likely that this photogr...
Photograph

View of the Janesville Countryside

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of the Janesville Countryside.
Photograph

S.W. Truesdell Home

Date: 1920
Description: The home of photographer S.W. Truesdell. A man is standing in the snow in front of the fence near a horse and sleigh.
Photograph

Jenifer Street House

Date: 1949
Description: 748 Jenifer Street, also known as the Vogel cottage.
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Factory Scene Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a "scene in the Osborne rolling mill." The Osborne company manufactured agricultural m...
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of D.M. Osborne Catalog

Date: 1895
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery. Features color illustrations of the New Osborne...
Photograph

Maple Bluff Country Club

Date: 1957
Description: An air view of the Maple Bluff Country Club. In the upper lefthand corner is the Rennebohm residence.
Photograph

F-12 Tractor with Single Front Wheel

Date: 
Description: Engineering photograph of a Farmall F-12 tractor with a single front wheel. There is a backdrop on the wall in the background.
Photograph

Fairway Tractor and Water Pump

Date: 1932
Description: Elevated view of a McCormick-Deering Fairway tractor hooked up to a water pump(?) near a creek at Indian Head Golf Club.
Photograph

Courtyard on 40 Albemarle Street

Date: 
Description: A slum courtyard on 40 Albemarle Street, with laundry hanging to dry. There are broken doors and a barrel on the ground.
Photograph

Looking West from Power Plant

Date: 1907
Description: Elevated wiew looking west, probably from the chimney of the University of Wisconsin Power Plant. Camp Randall Stadium is in the lower left corner.
Photograph

The Wirth House

Date: 1948
Description: The Wirth house, later the residence of Police Chief William H. McCormick, located at 2817 Milwaukee Street. The newer addition was built circa 1882, the o...

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