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Madison Brass Band at State Fair

Date: 09 10 1879
Description: The Madison Brass Band performing at the Wisconsin State Fair at Camp Randall. The view is facing east toward the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Coaching Party Departing for Scottish Games

Date: 08 31 1909
Description: A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants...
Print

Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
Photograph

Steamboat Canada

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Description: The steamboat Canada at dock; cargo on lower deck, passengers on upper deck, and crowd waiting on the dock. The Canada was built in 1858, dis...
Photograph

The Keokuk Beside a Barge

Date: 1868
Description: The sidewheel packet, Keokuk, loaded with passengers beside a barge at a landing. The landing is filled with people and horse-drawn vehicles. The si...
Postcard

Steamer J.S. Loading Excursion Party

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Description: The sternwheel excursion J.S., loading an excursion party below dock. Horse and cart in foreground. Caption reads: "Steamer J.S. Loading Excursion P...
Photograph

Midway Pleasance, Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Columbian Exposition; North side of Midway Pleasance viewed from Madison Avenue.
Photograph

St. Paul Ice Carnival Parade

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Description: Elevated view of the St. Paul Ice Carnival; royal family equipages in street parade with crowd lining street. There is a real estate agency and a laundry o...
Photograph

Libby Prison, Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: Libby Prison at the Columbian Exposition. Several carts, horses in front of the building.
Photograph

U.S. Centennial Ceremonies on the Square

Date: 07 04 1876
Description: Stereograph of view of procession, military company and citizens at Great Centennial Day at the Capitol Square. Scene at Main and Carroll Streets showing t...
Map or Atlas

Fuller Opera House

Date: 1889
Description: Illustration of the exterior of the Fuller Opera House, which is a detail from a bird's-eye view map of Madison.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering & Company Catalog

Date: 1894
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller and Company Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Aultman, Miller and Company, Buckeye brand. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of children dresse...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Chilton, Wisconsin

Date: 1878
Description: Bird's-eye map of Chilton with insets of points of interest, including P.H. Becker's Brewery, Chilton House, and Gutheil's Block.
Photograph

Fire Wagon in Action

Date: 1895
Description: A hose wagon of the Madison fire department racing around the corner of North Pinckney and East Main streets. A dog is chasing the wagon.
Photograph

Capitol Park and Park Hotel

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of the Park Hotel at the intersection of Carroll and Main streets, with the Capitol Park on the right. Several carriages are hitched at the p...
Photograph

Muddy Street in Milwaukee

Date: 1901
Description: A man tips his hat to a passing woman as horse-drawn carts and pedestrians navigate through the dirt and mud of Milwaukee streets, thereby illustrating tha...
Drawing

C.H. & L.J. McCormick's Reaper Manufactory

Date: 1875
Description: Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin...
Print

Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1887
Description: View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol from the pages of the Wisconsin Blue Book.
Photograph

Saint Julien Billiard Rooms

Date: 1872
Description: Exterior elevated view of the Saint Julien Billiard Rooms on Main Street on the Fourth of July.

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