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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
Description: Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Photograph

Capital Brewery

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of employees, along with young children, posed around a wagon loaded with barrels of beer in front of Hausmann's Capital Brewery at the corne...
Photograph

Oscar Mayer Plant with Toledo Scale

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Oscar Mayer plant interior with Toledo Scale.
Photograph

W.A. Oppel Grocery

Date: 1896
Description: Grocers standing in front of the W.A. Oppel Grocery located at 116 East Main Street. The five men are standing on the sidewalk among bine and crates displa...
Photograph

Hess Cooperage Sawmill

Date: 1952
Description: Three employees working at the Hess Cooperage sawmill, quarter sawing oak logs to make staves and heads for barrels.
Photograph

Hess Brothers with Large Oak Log

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess, Eddie Hess, and Foots Hess (l to r) of the Hess Cooperage pose with a large oak log which will be cut into staves and heads for barrels. Houses ...
Photograph

Joe Hess Finishing Barrel Heads

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess finishing barrel heads at the Hess Cooperage.
Photograph

Joe Hess using Crozing Machine

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess using a crozing machine to shape an oak barrel at the Hess Cooperage.
Photograph

Frank Hess Jr. Setting Hoops on a Barrel

Date: 1952
Description: Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. watching a machine set hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage.
Photograph

Joe Hess using Barrel Head Circling Machine

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
Photograph

Droster Grocery and Filling Station

Date: 1940
Description: Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ...
Photograph

Farmer's Market

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Description: Elevated view of the farmer's market on East Washington Avenue near storefronts. Many horse-drawn buggies and wagons are lined up on both sides of the aven...
Photograph

216 Campbell Street

Date: 1905
Description: View of the house at 216 Campbell Street. Construction materials are piled about the property, suggesting it was recently built. A small group of people ar...
Photograph

Turvill Shop

Date: 1898
Description: View up dirt road towards a young man standing near the Turvill shop. The tree-lined road leads up a slope towards another building under trees.
Photograph

Man Driving Horse-Drawn Wagon Filled with Fauerbach Barrels on Blount Street

Date: 1910
Description: Joseph Bossart driving a horse-drawn wagon loaded with 37 empty beer barrels is parked in front of the International Harvester building on S. Blount Street...
Photograph

Annual Vilas Park Fireworks

Date: 07 01 1965
Description: Elevated view of George Parisi and Henry Turville, Lions club members, setting up a fireworks fund barrel at Vilas Park to collect donations for the annual...
Photograph

Beer Wagon on Sherman Avenue

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Description: Elevated view of a beer wagon pulled by two oxen standing on Sherman Avenue. A delivery man with a keg of beer on his shoulder is standing in the street ne...
Photograph

Portrait at Fauerbach Brewery

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Description: A group of men posing together at Fauerbach Brewing Company. They are probably brewery employees. The man seated front and center on a barrel, holding a be...

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