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Newspaper Article/Clipping

Lamp House

Date: 04 30 1913
Description: Newspaper photograph of the Robert Lamp home, 22 North Butler Street, built by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1903, and hidden in the center of one of Madison's upt...
Document

Looking Back in Ripon

Date: 03 24 1983
Description: Newspaper clipping showing the demolishing of the Long House. The man on the right is believed to be M.V. Adkins, son of Chester Adkins, the last survivor ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee County

Date: 1886
Description: Detail of map including plans of the National Soldiers' home.
Photograph

Schlitz Brewing Company

Date: 1940
Description: There is a sign painted on a building at right that reads "Schlitz". In the bottom right are railroad cars.
Photograph

Historic Scene Depicted in the Schoenleber Memorial Clock Tower

Date: 1970
Description: Close-up detail of scene of historic Wisconsin in a hexagonal structure on a pedestal beneath the clock. The scene depicts an outdoor band concert in Milwa...
Photograph

Aerial View of Residential Area

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Valley Fair Mall, with a residential area beyond it on both sides of a river, all surrounded by trees and farmland.
Photograph

Post Office

Date: 
Description: A stagecoach full of people is outside the post office on snow-covered ground, waiting to leave town. Text on image reads: "Stage, Leaving Arbor Vitae, Wis...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Red Gym

Date: 
Description: Exterior view from across Langdon Street of the Red Gym (Armory or Old Red) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Print

City of London

Date: 1810
Description: View of the city of Lincoln, England. Photocopy after an engraving by B.G. Topham.
Map or Atlas

Madison Public Schools Survey of Buildings and Sites

Date: 1925
Description: This map shows the public schools and their school districts. The bottom of the map reads:" Old buildings and sites in red. New buildings and sites in blac...
Map or Atlas

Preliminary Town Plan, Village of Port Edwards, Wis.

Date: 06 1931
Description: This map is a photocopy of a map that has been hand-colored and shows streets, the Wisconsin River, Mill Pond, and points of interest that include a school...
Map or Atlas

Village of Leicester, Dane Co., Wis.

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows the blocks and streets that make up the village, and includes the Baraboo Air Line Railroad which cuts through the village at a diagonal fro...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Stoughton: Showing the Additions Made

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows the additions made in January 1855, as well as houses, streets, Catfish Creek, and the Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road and Depot. It als...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin River Valley

Date: 1911
Description: This map includes references to reservoirs, industrial sites, and drainage basins.
Map or Atlas

Ashland, Siskiwit, and Iron River R.R.

Date: 1900
Description: This map shows AS&IR Railroad between Siskiwit and Nash (with dock), a proposed extension of AS&IR Railroad "now under construction" between Superior and N...
Map or Atlas

Map of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: This map includes business directories, statistical table, distance table, list of county officers, and illustrated views of residential and commercial pro...
Map or Atlas

Plat of the Town of Fond du Lac: At the South End of Winnebaygo Lake

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows land parcels, streets, the Fond du Lac River, Lake Winnebaygo (Winnebago), and blocks. Certification is on the left hand corner. The back of...
Map or Atlas

Map of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

Date: 1913
Description: This map shows landownership, rural mail routes, rural buildings, railroads, U.S. national highways, state trunk highways, county trunk highways, township...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor : (John Jacob Astor, Ramsay Crooks & Robert Stuart): Proprietors

Date: 1835
Description: Map shows the Fox River, lot and block numbers, private claims, streets, a public squares, a manual labour school, and Fort Howard. An inset map shows a pl...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse as Seen from Cliffwood : [and] Cliffwood as Seen from La Crosse

Date: 1900
Description: This set of photocopy bird's-eye-view maps include one view looking west from the top of Wisconsin River bluffs; and a second view looking east towards La ...

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