Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.... |
Date: | 1817 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Old Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Log Fort Crawford 1816-1829 Sketch Made From, Maj. S.H. Long's Description of 1817." |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Nine men arrive at Fort William by canoe. Fort William, also called Kaministiguia, was the Hudson's Bay fur trading post. Men are standing along the opposi... |
Date: | 1834 |
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Description: | Reproduction of an oil painting of Fort Winnebago, which was built in 1827 by Major William Whistler and a detachment of the First Infantry. Caption reads:... |
Date: | 09 10 1875 |
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Description: | View looking west across the area once occupied by Camp Randall during the Civil War and towards the Breese Stevens farm property. The Madison Centennial ... |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Elevated view of ornate carriage and animal cage with tents and people looking on at the annual Wisconsin State Fair held at Camp Randall. |
Date: | 09 10 1879 |
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Description: | Crowd at the Camp Randall fairgrounds watching a horse race, part of that year's Wisconsin State Fair. Carriages and people are near buildings on the left,... |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the fort, with snow on the ground. |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Camp Randall, with the old stadium in the foreground and the Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Civil War fortification Fort Harrison showing embrasures and parapets of casemates. |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
Date: | 1814 |
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Description: | Fort Shelby built in 1814 and named for the Governor of Kentucky, was surrendered to British forces later in 1814 and renamed Fort McKay. Pictured here is ... |
Date: | 1814 |
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Description: | Fort Shelby, built by the Americans during the War of 1812. In 1814 the fort surrendered to British forces led by Captain Andrew W. Bulger who renamed it F... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Fort Crawford ruins. This image may be even earlier than 1875; by the 1880's almost nothing was left of the actual fort compound buildings. Men are sitting... |
Date: | 1831 |
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Description: | Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856). |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
Date: | 04 15 1861 |
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Description: | Fort Sumter after bombardment by the Confederates. |
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