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Poster

Fire Company

Date: 1857
Description: A lithographic portrait by Louis Kurz (1833-1921) of Madison Fire Engine Company #2 posed with a hand pumper and hose cart in front of the design of the ne...
Drawing

Bird's-Eye View of University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 1907
Description: Bird's-eye view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking northwest. Building at top of hill, to left of center is Bascom Hill (Main Hall) and...
Print

Capitol (Third) and Unbuilt Dome

Date: 1857
Description: Lithograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol, surrounded by portraits of Wisconsin Statesmen. Governor Bashford hired the Madison architectural firm Kutzbock ...
Print

Iceboating at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 03 09 1878
Description: Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden...
Print

Bird's-Eye View of Wisconsin State University

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye view of Wisconsin State University, now the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vignettes include Ladies Hall, South Dormitory, University Hall, As...
Drawing

Madison Capital House

Date: 1853
Description: Illustration of the Capital house, a first-class hotel, copied from page 320 of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
Print

Madison, the Capitol of Wisconsin

Date: 1864
Description: Bird's-eye view of Madison, with 12 vignettes and in the center is "The Capitol of Wisconsin View from the Capitol House". The buildings on the top are, fr...
Print

View of Madison, the Capital of the State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th...
Print

A General View of the City — Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 03 30 1889
Description: Bird's-eye view from Bascom Hill of Madison, with vignettes of the Wisconsin State Capitol, Lake Monona, and the Capitol Park.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol from Lake Mendota

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Capital from the shores of Lake Mendota, with two steamboats crossing the lake.
Photograph

Winter on Picnic Point

Date: 1915
Description: Picnic Point from Observatory Hill in winter.
Photograph

Steamboat on Lake Monona

Date: 
Description: Steamboat on Lake Monona, with the Wisconsin State Capitol and several churches in the background.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) near Madison.
Drawing

Proposed State Office Building

Date: 1930
Description: A chalk rendering of the proposed State Office Building by State Architect, Arthur Peabody. The Wisconsin State Capitol is visible in the background.
Drawing

Depiction of Tonyawatha Spring Hotel

Date: 1895
Description: View of the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel grounds, located on Lake Monona in Blooming Grove Township, just outside of Madison. The hotel opened in 1879 and on Ju...
Poster

Fight Madison Gas and Electric Rate Increase

Date: 
Description: Graphic depiction of the MG&E plant showing stacks releasing smoke into the air. Text reads "FIGHT! the MADISON GAS & ELECTRIC rate increase".
Photograph

Birds-Eye View of University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1917
Description: Bird's-eye view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Poster

2nd Annual Miffland Party

Date: 09 05 1971
Description: Poster advertising the "Second Annual Day of Interdependence Comemerating [sic] the Declaration of Miffland." Features a caricatured Mifflin Co-op and two ...
Map or Atlas

Frost's Woods : [on the South Side of Lake Monona, Dane County, Wisconsin]

Date: 1927
Description: Blueprint-style map of Frost Woods on the shore of Lake Monona. The map indicates the locations of Indian mounds, an Indian camp, and various plants. There...

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