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| 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... |
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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | The tractor-trailer used to transport and display the world's largest cheese at the 1964 World's Fair held in New York. The 34,591 pound cheddar was made i... |
| 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: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of Edward C. Berner's ice cream store. |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn wagons, also known as milk buggies, dropping off cans of milk at the country cheese factory during summer. |
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| Description: | Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho... |
| Date: | 02 16 1956 |
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| Description: | Airbrush rendering of Brooks Stevens' vision for a redesign of the Oscar Mayer promotional wiener vehicle. The view is an elevated, three-quarter view from... |
| Date: | 03 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Airbrush rendering of Brooks Stevens' vision for a redesign of the Oscar Mayer promotional wiener vehicle. The view is of the left side, and the sign on th... |
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