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| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul passenger depot with several people standing in front of the building. This is the Franklin Street station on East Wilson Str... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Original Chicago & North Western Railroad passenger station, 219 South Blair Street at East Wilson Street, with a few men gathered out front. Torn down in... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Madison City Hall, 2 West Mifflin Street built in 1857. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | The Illinois Central passenger depot. Caption reads: "Illinois Central Pass. Depot." |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Handwritten letter of Lucius Fairchild from the Madison Watercure detailing his experiences there. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Canvass of the results for various village offices, April 6, 1852. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Draft newspaper editorial, "Our Railroad Prospects," written by former governor Leonard J. Farwell. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | May-June 1856 page from the Historical Society accession register, in which Corresponding Secretary Lyman Draper listed the books received that month. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | State University (University of Wisconsin), Madison. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) near Madison. |
| Date: | 07 12 1865 |
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| Description: | A letter written by Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis to E.G. Ayer of Harvard, Illinois, thanking him for his special care of and attention to sick and wou... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | A page of autographs of the members of the 1861 Wisconsin Legislature. |
| Date: | 04 06 1884 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu of the restaurant at the Park Hotel, with an etching of a building with a steeple amidst many trees set against a circular frame ornam... |
| Date: | 07 04 1888 |
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| Description: | Exterior and interior of a menu from the Park Hotel with a deep blue striped border and perforated accent edging. |
| Date: | 12 22 1868 |
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| Description: | Front cover and interior menu pages from the Third Annual Supper of the New England Society, held at Vilas House to commemorate Forefather's Day. On the co... |
| Date: | 02 22 1872 |
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| Description: | Menu of the banquet for the second reunion of the First Regiment of Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. On the cover are ornamented initials and the type is imp... |
| Date: | 06 28 1887 |
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| Description: | Menu for a senior reception catered by W.H. Burleson, with a wide border of pig or demon half-faces, and in the center a figure in a kimono and sandals wit... |
| Date: | 02 14 1876 |
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| Description: | Menu for the Centennial Reception of the Wisconsin Legislature in the Agricultural Rooms of the State Capitol, printed in a range of typefaces. |
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