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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
Description: Back of painting reads: "Madison in June 1837 after photo taken by E.E. Bailey" and "Peck's cabin by Dengel." The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
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 ...
Photograph

Bare Tree with Birches

Date: 10 20 1963
Description: Bare tree, complemented by birches in bright fall foliage, in the vicinity of Highway J, south.
Photograph

Trees in Valley

Date: 06 25 1964
Description: Trees in the valley against the sun, below Stewart Park.
Photograph

Farm Road between Fields

Date: 12 01 1962
Description: A farm road between fields in late sunlight, looking towards Mounds Creek in the vicinity of CTH F.
Photograph

Early Morning at Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 03 1960
Description: Early morning at a railroad crossing on County Highway A, with houses and a barn in the distance.
Photograph

Stone Bridge Covered in Snow on Edgewood Drive

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: Stone bridge on Edgewood Drive, formerly an underpass for cows to access the lake. There are buildings further up the hill in the background.
Photograph

Rural Paved Highway

Date: 11 08 1928
Description: Stretch of paved rural highway near Mount Horeb featuring a proprietary centerline joint.
Postcard

Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
Photograph

Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
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

Old Race Course through the Woods

Date: 1930
Description: View of a wide path through trees in the spring or summer.
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

View from Hill of Cross Plains

Date: 1928
Description: View from hill of uptown Cross Plains with the Catholic Church (St. Francis Xavier) and farmhouses.
Photograph

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Cross Plains, with countryside surrounding and hills on the horizon.
Photograph

Aerial View of Cross Plains and Surrounding Countryside

Date: 11 1928
Description: Aerial view of Cross Plains, including residences and the surrounding countryside.
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

Little Norway Building

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

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