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Photograph

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.
Print

Camp Randall

Date: 1862
Description: Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar...
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

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

Bird's-Eye View of Wisconsin State University

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye view of Wisconsin State University, now the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vignettes include Ladies Hall, South Dormitory, University Hall, As...
Drawing

Madison from University Hill

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the...
Drawing

Madison Landscape

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark ...
Map or Atlas

Marshall, Dane Co., Wis.

Date: 1879
Description: Bird's-eye map of Marshall.
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Mazomanie, Dane County, Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: Bird's-eye map of Mazomanie.
Photograph

Lange Family Reunion

Date: 08 03 1941
Description: Group portrait of Lange family at a reunion in Olin Park, with the Madison skyline in the background.
Photograph

Rural Paved Highway

Date: 11 08 1928
Description: Stretch of paved rural highway featuring a proprietary centerline joint, looking towards Mount Horeb from the east.
Photograph

Men's Dormitories

Date: 11 20 1926
Description: View from Observatory Hill of the new Men's Lakeshore dormitories at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing Chamberlin Rock in the foreground. The do...
Photograph

Amund Rustebakke Farm

Date: 1873
Description: View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ...
Photograph

Distant View of Mazomanie

Date: 1874
Description: Distant view of the town from a hill with houses, garden plots, businesses and churches.
Photograph

One View of Village of Mount Vernon

Date: 1876
Description: "One view of the village of Mount Vernon, Wis." a stereograph listed in Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views."
Photograph

Air View of Black Earth

Date: 1955
Description: Aerial view of Black Earth, Wisconsin.
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

Remains of Racetrack

Date: 1930
Description: Remains of the racetrack on the top of Blue Mound.
Photograph

Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 05 10 1928
Description: The Lutheran Church and buildings, seen from Lutheran Church Hill.

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