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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Map or Atlas

Dane County Map

Date: 1861
Description: Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Madison

Date: 1836
Description: The top map is the "Plat of Madison the Capitol of Wisconsin." The bottom map is the "Map of the Four Lake Country. Taken from the Township Maps in the U.S...
Photograph

Potato Field

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Four men in a potato field at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
Photograph

Men's Dormitories

Date: 11 20 1926
Description: View from Observatory Hill of the new Men's Lakeshore dormitories at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing Chamberlin Rock in the foreground. The do...
Photograph

Men's Dormitories

Date: 06 30 1926
Description: View across Observatory Drive, looking down towards the Van Hise dormitories: Adams, Tripp, and Carson Gulley Commons. Picnic Point is in the distance on L...
Photograph

Home Economics Building

Date: 07 16 1926
Description: Home Economics building, University of Wisconsin, 1300 Linden Drive, from the east.
Photograph

University Drive in Winter

Date: 1925
Description: Winter scene of trees on a snowy hill along University Drive. There is a building at the top of the hill obscured by trees.
Photograph

Agricultural Campus

Date: 06 21 1926
Description: View of the University of Wisconsin-Madison agricultural campus looking east.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting of the Peck Cabin representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The "Peck Cabin" is a variation signed "M...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1837
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o...
Photograph

View of University Heights Neighborhood

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of University Heights, looking north from Ely Place towards Bascom Hall. The following houses are visible: Professor Richard T. Ely house, 20...
Painting

Illustration of Madison

Date: 1850
Description: A watercolor painting depicting a distant view of the city of Madison, circa 1850-1851.
Drawing

Waterfront on the Grounds of Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1863
Description: View of the shoreline on the Walker Castle grounds. Two men are boating while a young boy fishes from the shore.
Drawing

Plan for the Madison Isthmus

Date: 
Description: Detail from a drawing of a plan for the isthmus.
Map or Atlas

Wards & Precincts

Date: 1959
Description: This map shows wards and precincts by number, local streets, roads, parks, Shorewood Hills, Maple Bluff, Middleton, Verona, McFarland, Monona, Truax Field,...
Map or Atlas

1890 Madison Plat Map

Date: 1890
Description: Plat map of Madison, T7N R9E, including portions of the towns of Blooming Grove and Burke. Includes inset maps of South Madison, Quarrytown, Marril Park, a...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Madison

Date: 1908
Description: A Sanborn map of the isthmus, which includes the map key.
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Pleasant Springs

Date: 1899
Description: A plat map of Pleasant Springs in Dane County.
Map or Atlas

Map of Deerfield

Date: 1873
Description: A plat map of Deerfield.

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