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| 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: | 1857 |
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| Description: | From Judge Smith Addition, 5th Ward, looking north, toward the city. Drawing is an elevated view of field and plank fence in foreground, road to the left a... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | South Pinckney Street as photographed by Fuller from the Wisconsin State Capitol roof. In the center are several wooden structures dating from Madison's e... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Main Street in Cedarburg. Includes text which reads: "Cedarburg, Wis., in the year 1850, showing Main Street as it appeared at that time. The photograph wa... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Angled front view of front and left side of Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Early view of the house built by Madison's first mayor, Jairus C. Fairchild, at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877) at West Wilson S... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | An ambrotype of Wonewoc, Wisconsin. Fences and buildings are in the foreground, with a tree-lined bluff behind. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | An ambrotype of Wonewoc. A road and fence is in the foreground, with houses beyond. A tree-lined hill is in the background. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | View of the Bridgeman house with three adults and a child posed along a fence in front of it. |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Madison's Pinckney Street, with the Capitol Park in the foreground and Farwell's octagon house and Lake Monona in the distance. This view has been various... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Engraving showing Champion Reaper & Mower Works in Chicago, Illinois, where first Champion machine was built." |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Half plate ambrotype of an elevated view of Portage City, Wisconsin. The view encompasses a wooden Gothic Revival church and steeple on the right, with a d... |
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