Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos... |
Date: | 1893 |
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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... |
Date: | 01 12 1844 |
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Description: | A pen and ink drawing of a log cabin, pork casks, and a washtub, contained in a letter written by Thomas Steel, Waukesha County farmer and physician, to hi... |
Date: | 02 21 1874 |
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Description: | African American boatmen run a rapids in a small river boat. |
Date: | 1873 |
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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... |
Date: | 1878 |
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Description: | A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t... |
Date: | 1869 |
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Description: | A family is standing and sitting in a yard of the porch of a upright and wing frame house that has a diamond shaped attic window, two doors in front and ha... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | A family playing croquet in the yard of a side gable frame house with a porch. A birdcage is hanging from the porch and a young girl is clutching a doll. A... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her two girls are standing in front of a frame house that has lathe on roof for climbing. Vines are growing in window boxes and ... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | A family of seven, including a babe in arms are in front of a frame house with a stone foundation and latticework under the porch. A tree stump is in the l... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
Date: | 1892 |
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Description: | Front cover of a catalog for the McCormick Bindlochine (grain binder). The color illustration features two small boys playing with a toy binder and horse m... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View across water towards the Empire Mill. Alongside the building are railroad cars at a loading dock. The signs on the mill read: "Globe", "Globe's Empire... |
Date: | 1877 |
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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. |
Date: | 08 28 1885 |
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Description: | Sketch of the shack from which Benedict Goldenberger sold cider vinegar. Possibly on Murray Street. |
Date: | 05 1899 |
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Description: | View of William Krueger's house across the road from the Krueger farm. |
Date: | 08 02 1895 |
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Description: | Ephraim Watt, his wife Rhoda Adelaide Watt (née Mosher), and their daughter, Glendora Eunice Watt, pose in front of their log home, 14 miles southwest of F... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | View from sloped lawn of the Lake Mendota shoreline, with the Olin boathouse in the foreground, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison boathouse on the ri... |
Date: | 06 08 1896 |
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Description: | The Lucius Fairchild home at 302 Monona Avenue (later Martin Luther King Blvd.) seen from the back garden. Lush foliage surrounds the back door, where a br... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Engraving of the Peck Cabin, after the painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. Caption at bottom reads: "First House in Madison. 1837." |
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