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Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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Description: The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison.
Print

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 06 1837
Description: Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ...
Poster

Deering Harvester Advertising Poster

Date: 1899
Description: Advertising poster featuring color illustation of three men and a dog watching a farmer harvest grain with a horse-drawn Deering Ideal grain binder. The me...
Photograph

E.B. Fred Hall

Date: 1954
Description: E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A person is shoveling dirt in front of the bu...
Photograph

Boy Practicing Cattle Roping

Date: 1962
Description: 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ...
Print

West Side Fuel Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi...
Photograph

Net Fishing

Date: 1960
Description: Two fishermen gather their net full of fish.
Photograph

Men in Field with Haystacks

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Description: View towards two men standing and holding pitchforks in a field with haystacks around them. Lantern slide.

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