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Map or Atlas

Dane County Map

Date: 1861
Description: Drawn the first year of the Civil War, this colored 1861 map of Dane County shows its towns, cities and lakes. It includes insets of the wards of Madison a...
Photograph

View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Monona

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground, with several residences an...
Photograph

View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Monona

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. South Hall is in the foreground with several residences an...
Photograph

View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward the Wisconsin State Capitol (Second)

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus looking up State Street toward the second Wisconsin State Ca...
Photograph

View from Main Hall (Bascom Hall) toward Lake Mendota

Date: 1861
Description: View of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. North Hall is in the foreground with several residences and...
Photograph

East Wing of the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1861
Description: East (King Street) wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol and the south wall of the Territorial Capitol (at the left) taken from the roof of the buildin...
Photograph

View of East Main Street

Date: 1861
Description: First block of East Main street photographed from the roof of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Doty and Wilson street properties and Lake Monona are i...
Photograph

Vilas House Hotel on East Main Street

Date: 1861
Description: The Vilas Hotel located at the corner of Monona Avenue at the west end of the first block of East Main Street.
Photograph

State Street Looking Toward Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1861
Description: View up State Street looking toward the Wisconsin State Capitol from the roof of University Hall (later Bascom Hall), about 1860 or 1861. Actually the pho...
Print

Drawing of Mayville, Wisconsin

Date: 1861
Description: A drawing of Mayville.
Map or Atlas

Colton's Wisconsin Map

Date: 1861
Description: A map of Wisconsin showing cities, counties, major roads, railroads, and bodies of water. Includes an inset of the vicinity of Milwaukee.
Magazine or Periodical

USS "Seneca"

Date: 1861
Description: View of the gun boat USS "Seneca".
Drawing

Bombardment of Fort Sumter

Date: 1861
Description: Color lithograph of the fort in the midst of the bombardment, published by Bingham & Dodd, Hartford, Connecticut.
Photograph

Fort Sumter

Date: 1861
Description: Stereograph of exterior of Fort Sumter.
Print

View of Rush St. Bridge From Nortons Block River Street

Date: 1861
Description: Lithograph illustration of downtown Chicago near the Rush Street bridge (a "swing bridge"). The McCormick Reaper Works and other factory buildings are on t...
Photograph

Rush Street Bridge before the Chicago Fire

Date: 1861
Description: Panoramic view of downtown Chicago before the fire of 1871. The photograph was taken from the South side of the Chicago River, looking Northeast. The Rush ...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Villages Map Detail

Date: 1861
Description: Portion of a map showing Wisconsin villages including Cambria, Fall River, Columbus, Otsego, and Dekorra.
Map or Atlas

Map of Decatur Township

Date: 1861
Description: A detail from a map of Green County, showing only Decatur.
Map or Atlas

Appleton's Map of the Seat of War, No. 1; Drawn by E. Wells

Date: 1861
Description: A general map of Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jersey and Delaware. Insets include maps of New Orleans, Baltimore, St. Louis, Charleston, Savannah, Washingto...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Seat of War

Date: 1861
Description: This map was reproduced photographically and issued in Augusta, Ga., in the early days of the Civil War. It includes panels showing Virginia, Maryland, the...

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