Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View down Main Street on the Capitol Square. Caption reads: "Main Street, looking West." |
Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | Chromolithograph of the third Wisconsin State Capitol with a U.S. flag atop the dome. The colored illustration was produced by the Milwaukee Lithography an... |
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Description: | View from a stone bridge towards Vilas Park, with children riding the carousel (merry-go-round) and a kiddie train adjacent to the lagoon. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | St. Mary's Hospital soon after its completion in 1911. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Hospital." |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | View of City Hospital, which became known as Madison General Hospital and is now Meriter Hospital. It was designed by Madison architects Louis W. Claude an... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Central High School, designed by St. Paul architect Cass Gilbert and partially razed in 1986. Caption reads: "High School, Madison, Wis." |
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Description: | Inside spread of 4-page advertising brochure for Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co. Limited with a chromolithograph of a Bonanza Forge Drop planter, "The only perfe... |
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Description: | View from shoreline towards the Steensland Bridge with a boat and passengers passing beneath. Caption reads: "Steensland Bridge, Madison, Wis." |
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Description: | Colorized view of the Capitol Park and the replica of Centennial fountain installed in the park in 1878. The green paint is a change made in 1898. |
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Description: | Embossed souvenir postcard decorated with gold that depicts the third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared, 1883-1904. The gold dome was an entirely arti... |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | View of one of the four Prairie du Chien stone gateways that stood at the four corner entrances to the Capitol Park. More elaborate gates topped with iron ... |
Date: | 1904 |
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Description: | Postcard depicting the fire of February 26-27, 1904 that destroyed most of the second Wisconsin State Capitol. The smoke and flames have been dramatically ... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | This card which is postmarked 1912 shows the zinc statutes on the stone gateways near the sidewalk at Monona Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.). Ori... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons. The memorial was built to honor Wisconsin Civil War soldiers and is located on the University of Wisconsi... |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Top image on Place File card. Caption reads: "Bird's-eye View, Camp Ra... |
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