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Lumber Camp Dining Room

Date: 1890
Description: Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ...
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...
Photograph

Mrs. Ollie Jacobs and Pearl Jacobs Borusky

Date: 07 26 1941
Description: Mrs. Ollie Jacobs and her daughter Pearl Jacobs Borusky outdoors near a log building.
Print

Grignon Block House

Date: 1850
Description: The Grignon block house, "where the first Mass was said."
Drawing

Wisconsin Centennial Commemorative Stamp Sketch

Date: 1947
Description: One of two pencil sketches submitted by Leon Pescheret of Whitewater, Wisconsin, to the Wisconsin Centennial Committee to be considered for the Wisconsin C...
Book or Pamphlet

Playground of Wisconsin's Northwoods Pamphlet

Date: 1931
Description: Cover of a Wisconsin tourism pamphlet for the 1932 season.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 
Description: Photographic print of an amateur painting of the Peck Cabin representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The "Peck Cabin" is a variation signed "M...
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...
Print

Drawing of Grand Turk on Mississippi River

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Description: Drawing of Grand Turk steamboat on the river's edge. Print is part of a series collected in Lewis' "Das Illustririte Mississippithal".
Photograph

Birthplace of Robert M. La Follette

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Description: Log cabin home of Josiah and Mary Ferguson La Follette, the birthplace of Robert Marion La Follette, from a drawing.
Photograph

Lumber Camp Fiddler and Jig Dancer

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Description: Two men in a lumber camp bunkhouse. The man on the right is sitting on a stump playing a fiddle, while the man on the left is dancing.
Photograph

Herb Kellar and Others on "Romance of the Reaper" Set

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
Photograph

First American Covenant of the Sisters of St. Joseph

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Description: 1836 illustration of a log structure that has a cross of the roof. A nun stands in front of the building, while two other nuns walk down a path on the left...
Photograph

Mitchell's Glen

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Description: View of Mitchell's Glen, formerly owned by S.D. Mitchell. A rock structure accompanied by a sign reading: "Hands Off" is in front of a cabin.
Photograph

Main Lodge at Moody's Camp

Date: 1935
Description: Interior view of the parlor and dining room at the lodge at Moody's Camp on Spider Lake. There are numerous chairs, an upright piano with a world globe sit...
Photograph

Holter Studio

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Description: Wood carver Jerry Holter outside his studio in Clam Lake.
Photograph

Portrait in Wood

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Description: Clam Lake artist Jerry Holter carving a wooden portrait of John A. Lavine, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher.
Photograph

Tom Moore, Betty Compson, and Jean De Briac in "Over the Border"

Date: 1922
Description: Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Flaherty (played by Tom Moore) looks on suspiciously as Jen Galbraith (Betty Compson) talks to Pretty Pierre (Jean D...
Photograph

Garage at Europe Lake

Date: 1921
Description: The garage, with vertical log siding, near the Hotz family cottage at Europe Lake. There is a pump on the front porch, and a bell with a rope on the peak o...

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