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Hickory Tree

Date: 
Description: Shagbark hickory tree in a field.
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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

Women Hiking

Date: 10 25 1912
Description: Five young women walking across a field. The hand-lettered caption reads: "The hiker's stride."
Photograph

Rural Blue Mounds

Date: 
Description: View of farmland near Blue Mounds, with possibly property markers horizontal, across the center, and some distant farm houses and a barn. Caption reads: "B...
Photograph

Brigham Farm Building in Ruin

Date: 06 1925
Description: View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing.
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view of multiple buildings in Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill. Many roads and fences cross the fields. Wooded hills are in the background. ...
Photograph

Niels-Larsen Granary in Deerfield

Date: 1976
Description: Niels-Larsen granary on its original site, before its removal to Old World Wisconsin, Eagle, Wis;, where it was erected on the Norwegian site.
Photograph

Dane County Farm

Date: 1920
Description: A Dane County farm on Highway 113.
Photograph

Erosion in Middleton

Date: 04 1937
Description: From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pas...
Photograph

Tourists Among Burial Mounds

Date: 1910
Description: A sightseeing party wanders among cows and Native American burial mounds near the popular picnic area at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendot...
Photograph

Little Norway Building

Date: 1945
Description: One of the larger buildings of "Little Norway."
Photograph

Buildings at Little Norway

Date: 1948
Description: Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: main lodge (formerly Haugen barn), summer kitchen, tool house, and guest house.
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 1953
Description: Gardens of "Little Norway."
Postcard

Little Norway Kitchen

Date: 1956
Description: Exterior view of the kitchen at "Little Norway." Log building with a turf roof. Caption reads: "The Kitchen - Little Norway - Mt. Horeb, Wis."
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior view of Little Norway buildings near a hill.
Photograph

Little Norway

Date: 1947
Description: Exterior view of buildings at "Little Norway."
Photograph

Little Norway Buildings

Date: 1948
Description: Buildings at "Little Norway." From left to right: tool house, Norway house, Haugen homestead. The wagon in foreground is a kubberulle; the wheels are sec...
Photograph

Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1927
Description: A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Church and cemetery, built in 1852. The building was originally built with logs and was later faced with boards.
Photograph

Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1927
Description: A view of the Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery on the site of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, founded in 1852.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1837
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o...

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