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Drawing

George Baxter Burrows

Date: 1880
Description: Charcoal portrait of George Baxter Burrows. A Wisconsin State Senator (1878-1882) and real estate broker, he willed his twelve-acre Lake Mendota frontage e...
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly of 1880

Date: 1880
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Photograph

Philetus Sawyer

Date: 1880
Description: Philetus Sawyer, congressman, U.S. Senator, and Oshkosh lumber baron (1816-1900). During the 1880s and 1890s Sawyer was one of a small group of conservati...
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1880
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1880 around a photograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Book or Pamphlet

Inaugurals, 1789-1881

Date: 1880
Description: Foldout chart illustrating all elected officials in the United States federal government from 1789 to 1881. The upper half of the chart shows the persons e...

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