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Brisbane House

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Description: William Henry Brisbane house. The house was built between 1868 and 1869 from locally quarried stone for Dr. Brisbane, a physician and Baptist minister. He ...
Photograph

Camp Randall Field

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of Camp Randall Field from the top of Bascom Hall, with University Heights in the background. A crowd is in the stands at the stadium, and a ...
Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Date: 1856
Description: Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield.
Photograph

Rafts Below Dam

Date: 1886
Description: A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam.
Photograph

Rowboats

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Description: Fleet of rowboats carrying men and women with umbrellas.
Photograph

Witches' Gulch with Steamboat Alexander Mitchell

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Description: Mouth of Witches' Gulch and downstream, viewed from cliff. Steamboat Alexander Mitchell at mouth of gulch. Four canoes are on shore.
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Wehmhoff Effigy Mound

Date: 06 27 1927
Description: Aerial view of the effigy mound on Henry Wehmhoff's Riverview Farm. State Trunk Highway 83 runs through the effigy.
Map or Atlas

Section Including Falls & Dam in Red-River

Date: 1864
Description: This map shows pictorially a section of bracketdam, section of tree dam, and crib of stone. This map was prepared by order of General Joseph Bailey and is ...
Photograph

Early Lead Mine

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Description: Exterior of a badger-type early Wisconsin lead mine.
Photograph

Men with Farm Tools

Date: 1879
Description: Five men, facing away from the camera, are standing in a field. Some of them are holding a rakes and a scythe. A boy is in the foreground facing the camera...
Photograph

Houses and Water Tower

Date: 1940
Description: Elevated view over trees of village. In the background is a water tower on a hill with trees.
Photograph

Gettysburg Battleground

Date: 1863
Description: Stereograph of Gettysburg battlefield showing trees and a stump. Handwritten on reverse, "On the right of our line." This is probably a reference to the te...
Photograph

Farmall H Tractor and Combine

Date: 1949
Description: Farmer harvesting grain with a Farmall H tractor and harvester-thresher (combine).
Poster

McCormick "Westward" Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Catalog Illustration

Date: 1899
Description: Color lithograph color illustration from the back of an advertising catalog printed for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing an arch commemorat...
Photograph

German Shepherd Dog Jumps Across Stand Rock

Date: 06 1961
Description: A German shepherd jumps across Stand Rock as a man and child in traditional Indian apparel look on. The man is pointing to the dog.
Painting

Bad Axe Battleground

Date: 1856
Description: This landscape painting by Samuel Marsden Brookes and Thomas H. Stevenson depicts a broad view of the confluence of Bad Axe and Mississippi Rivers; site of...
Photograph

Aerial View of Isthmus

Date: 1940
Description: Aerial view looking east over the center of the city and the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Painting

Boyhood Home of Hamlin Garland

Date: 1937
Description: Boyhood home of Hamlin Garland.

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