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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...
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Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1862
Description: Drawn the second year of the Civil War, this 1862 map of Milwaukee shows post offices, light houses, beacon lights, county buildings, elevator warehouses, ...
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1429: Running The Portage Bridge

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Description: Stereograph of a man standing on the back of a raft holding a hand-hewned oar. The raft is passing under a wooden bridge. A town, including a church, are i...
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...
Map or Atlas

Fuller Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Illustration of the exterior of the Fuller Opera House, which is a detail from a bird's-eye view map of Madison.
Photograph

Darling Shop Display Window

Date: 11 06 1940
Description: Exterior night view of the Darling Shop, located at 9 East Main Street, with people looking at the window displays. A portion of the lighted neon "Darling ...
Photograph

L.C. Smith Typewriter Truck

Date: 08 17 1937
Description: View across street towards a semi-trailer truck delivering 200 new 1937 Super Speed L.C. Smith typewriters. A young boy and three men are standing in the s...
Photograph

Lewis D-X Station at Night

Date: 05 12 1937
Description: Front door of Lewis D-X Service Station at night, 118 King Street. Sign on door reads: "We meet the finest people in the world at this station --- our cust...
Photograph

New Tanks for Fauerbach Brewing Co.

Date: 04 17 1934
Description: View across street towards two new tanks being delivered by the Heil Co. of Milwaukee on a Heil Company truck. The truck is parked in front of the Fauerbac...
Photograph

A&W Root Beer Stand

Date: 09 12 1931
Description: A&W Root Beer stand at 900 S. Park Street.
Photograph

Coeds on Roof of Ann Emery Hall

Date: 06 23 1931
Description: Four University of Wisconsin-Madison coeds sunbathing on the roof of Ann Emery Hall, 265 Langdon Street, an independent women's dormitory named for the fir...
Photograph

Mayor Schmedeman Greeting Indian Chief

Date: 07 09 1930
Description: Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman greeting Chief Shunatuna, who is on horseback and who is in Madison with the Official United States Indian band at the RKO Orphe...
Photograph

Pyrofax Plant

Date: 07 24 1929
Description: Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, view looking south west.
Photograph

Dairy Barn and Silo

Date: 10 12 1926
Description: University of Wisconsin dairy barn and silo with Holstein Safety silage cutter on the ground in front.
Photograph

Home Economics Building

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

Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 07 1926
Description: Architectural drawing by Arthur Peabody of the Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue. University of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Masonic Temple

Date: 10 04 1926
Description: View across E. Johnson Street towards the Masonic Temple at 301 Wisconsin Avenue.
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

Westminster Presbyterian Church

Date: 12 08 1925
Description: Westminster Presbyterian Church.1806 West Lawn Avenue. Wingra Park.
Photograph

Madison Motor Car Company

Date: 12 1925
Description: Exterior view from street of Madison Motor Car Company, 325 W. Gorham Street.

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