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Peshtigo Fire

Date: 11 25 1871
Description: Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak...
Photograph

Circus Performers and Animals

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Description: Fred and Ella Bradna, equestrian director and performer for Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey. There are several other performers and a dog, relaxing in t...
Photograph

State Street from Bascom Hill

Date: 1896
Description: Tree-lined State Street from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Traffic on State Street includes two well-dressed gentlemen on hors...
Photograph

Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

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Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
Photograph

Log Hauling Train

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Description: Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs.
Photograph

Monthly Market Fair

Date: 1908
Description: Elevated view of farmer's wagons, teams, and pedestrian traffic crowd Princeton's main street for the monthly market fair. Some snow is on the ground and a...
Photograph

Horse and Buggy on a Country Road

Date: 1906
Description: View down tree-lined country road near Wausau, taken by Dr. Joseph Smith, talented amateur photographer. It depicts women (probably members of his family) ...
Photograph

Prize-Winning Cabbage

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca...
Photograph

Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
Painting

Battle of Chickamauga, 1863

Date: 1925
Description: "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ...
Painting

Peshtigo Fire III. The River

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Description: Peshtigo Fire III. The River.
Photograph

Frank Lloyd Wright's Funeral Procession

Date: 1959
Description: Panoramic view of the funeral procession of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, with Taliesin seen in the center background. Following the farm wagon hearse are ...
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses...
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

Cutting Grain

Date: 08 02 1926
Description: Harvesting grain with horse-drawn machinery at Farm Colony, Wisconsin State Hospital for Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), Highway 113.
Photograph

Tom Stahl with Dog Team

Date: 1910
Description: Tom Stahl's dog team pulling wagon loaded with goods and child past buildings in La Pointe.
Manuscript

Commemorative Roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry

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Description: Civil War commemorative roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry, surrounded by illustrated scenes.
Photograph

Richard Quinney and Grain Binder

Date: 1937
Description: Young Richard Quinney atop the family's new horse-drawn grain binder in a field.
Photograph

Police on Horseback and Bicyclist

Date: 2008
Description: A female bike rider looks over at police officer riding a horse at Riverside Park.
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber - Anaglyph

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ...

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