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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
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

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

Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin

Date: 1915
Description: A group of people, men and women, standing outside in the yard in front of Eleazer William's log cabin, five miles south of De Pere. The women in the cente...
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

Samuel Arms Family

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Description: The family of Samuel Arms poses outdoors in front of their house (the front door faces east). From left to right are: Samuel Arms, Mamie, Mary Roberts Arms...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Logging camp with numerous bobsleds loaded with logs. Two men and two women are posed sitting in a sleigh pulled by a team of two horses in front of a wood...
Photograph

Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
Photograph

Ephraim Watts Home

Date: 08 02 1895
Description: Ephraim Watt, his wife Rhoda Adelaide Watt (née Mosher), and their daughter, Glendora Eunice Watt, pose in front of their log home, 14 miles southwest of F...
Photograph

People in Farmyard with Hogs

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Description: Elevated view of four men and three women posing standing among farm buildings behind a group of hogs and piglets rooting among stumps. Scrubby trees are i...
Photograph

Family and Their Log Home

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Description: Group portrait of a man, girl, and a woman holding a broom, standing in front of a log house, surrounded by snow-covered ground. There is another person st...
Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Engraving of the Peck Cabin, after the painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. Caption at bottom reads: "First House in Madison. 1837."
Photograph

Men and Log Cabin

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Description: Stereograph of a group of men posing near a log cabin in the woods. In the foreground is a dirt mound and a man sitting on a box. Barrels and tools are sca...
Postcard

Sheboygan in its Infancy

Date: 08 12 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Sheboygan in its Infancy." A pioneer family posing in front of their log cabin, sitting on logs. The man has a dog in his lap, the wo...
Postcard

In Its Infancy

Date: 1909
Description: Text on front reads: "Sheboygan, Wis., In Its Infancy." A pioneer family posing in front of their log cabin, sitting on logs. The man has a dog in his lap,...
Photograph

Slave Quarters at Walnut Grove

Date: 08 1937
Description: Interior view of building, looking towards side wall, which has a hole open to the outdoors just below the ceiling. Debris is on the floor, and the back co...
Photograph

Slave Cabin — Walnut Grove

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: View of side of slave cabin with a small window. Steps are on the end of the building on the left. An exterior stone chimney is on the end of the cabin on ...

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