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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 05 26 1894 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wilson Riddell general store, with a horse-drawn wagon parked in front. There is a post office and paint shop attached to the store. S... |
| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
| Date: | 05 27 1849 |
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| Description: | The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Tree-lined State Street from Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Traffic on State Street includes two well-dressed gentlemen on hors... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the... |
| Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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| Description: | Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Bucolic scene in Wisconsin illustrates agricultural prosperity after the depression. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn carriage stuck in a rut on a muddy road near the Ohio River in Floyd County, Indiana. One man is holding the horse while another attempts to di... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Street parade rig, apparently to agitate against delays in construction of a railroad to connect Manitowoc to the west. In the background is a store owned ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Morgan L. Martin standing in a landscape, with a dog sitting at his feet. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Fauerbach's Brewery at 651-53 Williamson Street. |
| 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: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery. |
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