Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams. |
Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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Description: | The Madison Brass Band performing at the Wisconsin State Fair at Camp Randall. The view is facing east toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Elevated view of several men, some of whom may be railroad workers, posing in front of a Minnesota and St. Paul wood-burning engine at a train crossing. Th... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Norwegian Sunday School Picnic at Mendota steamboat landing. Small lake steamer "Mendota" could reach speeds of up to 18 mph. The barge "Uncle Sam" was 75f... |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph. This view from East Washington Avenue shows photographer Andrew Dahl on his horse "Curnel" in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Dahl had j... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks and several houses. Several railroad employees are doing repair work on the tracks, and one man is riding on a handcar. Be... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are posing in the field near the pond. |
Date: | 07 04 1876 |
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Description: | Stereograph of view of procession, military company and citizens at Great Centennial Day at the Capitol Square. Scene at Main and Carroll Streets showing t... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | View looking southwest down the 600 block of Williamson Street to the East Madison Passenger Depot of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. There are frame ... |
Date: | 07 1876 |
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Description: | Elevated view from the Park Hotel looking east to the corner of Carroll and Main Streets in Madison. Soldiers are in formation as a part of the centennial ... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View from the foot of Carroll Street with the Angle Worm Station at Barnes boat landing on Lake Monona. Shows the Scutt II taken from the first succ... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Locomotive, with view east on West Washington Avenue toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. There is a sign near the tracks that reads: "Look Out for The Cars... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View down railroad tracks at Angle Worm Station alongside Lake Monona. The station's unusual name originated from a speech given by Captain Frank Barnes ev... |
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: | 1873 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of people posing by the lakeshore of Maple Bluff with tents in the background. One of the woman is holding an archery bow, two women... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | View, ca. 1873-1879, of Madison looking down Wisconsin Avenue toward the third Wisconsin Capitol, a view that suggests something of the ongoing importance ... |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | The Flom Hotel or American House, located at 323 East Main Street at the corner of South Hancock Street, existed from 1865 to 1925. Attached to the buildin... |
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