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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Farm Family

Date: 1898
Description: A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the...
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

Christian Turck House

Date: 1900
Description: Christian Turck House built in 1835 by Turck who was a German immigrant.
Print

Camp at Michipicoton

Date: 1850
Description: View of Michipicoton, Ontario on Lake Superior showing a village with log structures and tents. Fishing nets are drying on poles.
Photograph

John F. Deitz

Date: 05 1924
Description: John F. Deitz holding a Luger pistol on a visit to Cameron Dam.
Photograph

Exterior of Log Cabin Bratwurst Restaurant

Date: 02 25 1931
Description: Log Cabin Bratwurst restaurant, 529 1/2 State Street.
Print

Railroad Land Sales

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Description: A colored advertising card that was issued by the Land Department of the Wisconsin Central Railroad in order to promote the sale of railroad-owned land in ...
Photograph

Betsy's Abode

Date: 1905
Description: A woman poses in front of her log cabin with her dog.
Photograph

Francis A. Deleglise House

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Description: The first house built in Antigo, the Francis A. Deleglise house. It was constructed in 1878.
Postcard

Deleglise Cabin

Date: 1930
Description: The first house in Antigo, the Deleglise cabin, built in 1878. Caption reads: "Deleglise Club, First House in Antigo, Built in 1877, Antigo, Wis." Handwrit...
Print

Grignon Block House

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

Radisson Cabin

Date: 1655
Description: Front view of the Radisson cabin, the first house built by a white man in Wisconsin. It was built between 1650 and 1660 on Chequamegon Bay, in the vicinity...
Photograph

School House

Date: 1910
Description: Log school house, erected about 1860.
Photograph

Model of John Naset's First Residence

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Description: Model of the house John Naset built for himself in the spring of 1865 in Christiana.
Photograph

Vindig Residence

Date: 1900
Description: Diorama (?) of the house built by Gunnul Olson Vindeg in the summer of 1840 in Christiana.
Postcard

Delavan Lake

Date: 1910
Description: View across water towards cabins on the shore of Delavan Lake, with three women standing near the base of a pier. Caption reads: "Log Cabin, Delavan Lake, ...
Photograph

Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin Site

Date: 1900
Description: A girl sits on a log next to Eleazer William's log cabin site.

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