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Panoramic View of Dudgeon Neighborhood

Date: 1916
Description: Panoramic view of the Wingra area from the railroad tracks north of Gregory Street. Looking towards Lake Wingra, across Monroe Street.
Photograph

Farmer Cultivates Field with Deering Disc Harrow

Date: 05 10 1917
Description: Farmer pulling a Deering double disc harrow with four horses in a field. A lake, trees and houses are in the distance.
Photograph

Unitarian Church and Vet's Hospital

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of the Frank Lloyd-Wright-dsigned Unitarian Church under construction and the Veteran's Administration Hospital, also under construction, to th...
Painting

Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape, 1969

Date: 1969
Description: Cover for the 1969 Wisconsin Friends of Our Native Landscape program. Depicted is a tree with white blossoms, yellow flowers, and a pathway leading up to a...
Photograph

Picnic Point from University of Wisconsin-Madison Soils Building

Date: 1926
Description: Elevated view of Picnic Point on Lake Mendota from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Soils building.
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Residence of William Arnon Henry

Date: 1900
Description: View of the University of Wisconsin residence of William Arnon Henry, Dean of Agriculture, 10 Babcock Drive with Lake Mendota in the background.
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University Heights

Date: 1906
Description: View of University Heights, showing a number of university buildings on the agricultural campus, including a windmill. Lake Mendota is in the far backgroun...
Photograph

Wild Rice Harvest

Date: 1960
Description: An Ojibwa woman, Francis Mike, harvesting wild rice in a boat on Totogatic Lake.
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Home on Picnic Point

Date: 1888
Description: View of shoreline along Picnic Point on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showing the home of Professor William Daniels, head of the Chemistry Dep...
Map or Atlas

Voyages Of Samuel de Champlain

Date: 1632
Description: The Wisconsin portion of Champlain's 1632 map, augmented since the previous one, for navigation according to the true Meridien, by Sieur de Champlain. The ...
Photograph

View From Southeast Shore of Lake Monona

Date: 1875
Description: View from Southeast shore of Lake Monona across a cornfield, perhaps on the farm of Thomas Williamson.
Photograph

View of the Grand Music Band

Date: 1876
Description: Quite possibly this is the "View of the Grand Music Band" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu...
Photograph

Distant View of Mazomanie

Date: 1874
Description: Distant view of the town from a hill with houses, garden plots, businesses and churches.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1880
Description: Cover of a McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fair circular (catalog). The cover is illustrated with a lake and mountain scene and includes the text "Man...
Postcard

Cochrane

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of Cochrane and the surrounding landscape. There are houses, railroad tracks, distant fields, a pond and some irrigation canals. Caption read...
Postcard

Downtown Fish Creek

Date: 1905
Description: View across field and fence downhill towards the town of Fish Creek and the bay. Caption reads: "Greetings from Fish Creek, Wis."
Photograph

Looking East Over Madison

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of Madison, looking east.
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Aerial View of Shorewood Hills

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view above Shorewood Hills near Madison, looking northeast.
Photograph

Picnic Point from Farms

Date: 03 24 1913
Description: Picnic Point from the University Farm fields, now known as Observatory Hill.
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Picnic Point from University Drive

Date: 
Description: Picnic Point from University drive, currently known as Observatory Hill. There are orchards in the foreground.

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