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Bird's-Eye View of Baraboo in Sauk County, Wisconsin

Date: 1870
Description: Baraboo was first settled around 1838, and by 1870 it had become the county seat and the thriving village illustrated here. This birds eye drawing depicts ...
Photograph

Courtyard at Cliff House

Date: 1878
Description: Courtyard at Cliff House, a resort hotel built shortly after 1872 when Devil's Lake was reached by rail. The house has a stone first floor, a balcony on ea...
Photograph

Lunch Crowd at Grand Regatta

Date: 1877
Description: "The Grand Regatta, at Devil's Lake, June 21st & 22nd, 1877." A crowd sits on the ground about to commence lunch at Devil's Lake.
Photograph

Baraboo High School

Date: 1870
Description: View of Baraboo high school with a large group of students standing around it.
Photograph

Water Street, Sauk City, Wisconsin

Date: 1868
Description: View of unpaved Water Street, showing a millinery shop.
Photograph

Kipp Residence

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the Kipp residence with laundry hanging in front and a man seated on the porch.
Photograph

Kipp Residence

Date: 1895
Description: Exterior view of the Kipp residence with a woman in the front yard reclining in a hammock.
Painting

Residence of Mr. Martin Lutscher

Date: 1875
Description: Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s...
Photograph

Phillips' Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Old Uncle Billy Johnson home at Governor Phillip's house, about six miles north of Prairie du Sac near highway 12. Portion of house, rock formation in back...
Photograph

House with White Fence

Date: 1870
Description: View towards the front of a house with a white fence. Posing in front of the fence are a man (appears to be on crutches), a young child, and a dog. Other p...
Photograph

Jacob Gasser Family

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of the Jacob Gasser family standing in front of the farmhouse at Tower Rock Farm.
Photograph

Bass Family Portrait

Date: 1894
Description: A group portrait including Dr. Edward A. Bass, seated on the far right, next to his parents, Isaac W. and Lorinda Hill Bass. Dr. Bass's brother Frank Bas...
Photograph

The Lloyd Jones Family

Date: 1883
Description: A group portrait of about 40 members of the Lloyd Jones family. The empty chair in the front row was placed in memory of the wife of Richard Lloyd Jones.
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Photograph

Elevated View of Farm

Date: 1897
Description: View down hill towards a farm in a valley, with wooded bluffs in the background. In the foreground, a fence is at the top of the hill overlooking the farm....
Photograph

Eduard and Elise Schroeder

Date: 1870
Description: A stereograph of a bearded man, seen in profile, and a woman, looking directly at the camera, posing near a picket fence. There is a small wood frame house...
Map or Atlas

Sanborn Map of Sauk City

Date: 1892
Description: A Sanborn fire insurance map of Sauk City which was drawn up in 1892.

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