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Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

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

Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses...
Photograph

Pond and Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: View from above, of a pond and a farmstead. A man is in a boat on the water and another man is in a wagon on shore near a fence. In the background are so...
Print

Landscape View with River and Riverboat

Date: 1858
Description: Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill.
Photograph

Wagon Bridge Across Wisconsin River

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Description: View from shoreline looking up at pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages on a wagon bridge that crosses the Wisconsin River. In the foreground is a boat on ...
Photograph

Transporting Wagon and Work Horses over Water

Date: 1908
Description: Men, women and children transporting horses and a loaded wagon across a river on a ferry.
Print

Badger State Tobacco Works Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Badger State Tobacco Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the building, men working on boats moored near the water...
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Stoughton Wagon Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Stoughton Wagon Company, a manufacturer of wagons, buggies, carriages, and oscillating bob sleighs, from Stoughton, Wisconsin, with an im...
Print

Phillip Best Brewing Company Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Phillip Best Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with three separate proscenium views of the Empire Brewery, the South Side Brewery,...
Print

William Rahr Sons' Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the William Rahr Sons' Company of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, "Maltsters and Roasters," with an elevated view of the company building on one side o...
Print

Wisconsin Chair Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with its McLean patented swing rocking chair set against a circular background with ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Photograph

G. Swenson Store

Date: 1911
Description: View across water towards the Gang standing in front of G. Swenson's Store in Kettle Falls, which is partially on the water. The steamer schedule is handwr...
Drawing

Descending the Bluff

Date: 1948
Description: A pencil drawing of two men descending a bluff with oxen and a wagon to Winona, Minnesota. There is a church in the town below and the Mississippi River is...
Photograph

Soldiers Crossing the Floating Bridge over the Save River

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers crossing the floating war bridge over the Save River during World War I.
Photograph

Crossing the Sava River

Date: 1915
Description: Hungarian hussars crossing the pontoon bridge over the Sava River in Serbia.
Photograph

On the Road to Albania

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Description: Wagons carrying pontoon boats being transported across the Montenegrin mountains to Lake Skutari (Skodar) in Albania.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Wagon Carrying a Duck Boat

Date: 1904
Description: A horse-drawn wagon is carrying a clinker-built duck boat and two men, with their backs to the camera, on a dirt path through the woods to Archibald Lake.
Photograph

Moving the Boat

Date: 1910
Description: Four men are unloading a wooden boat from a horse-drawn wagon. Lake Archibald is in the background.
Photograph

After a Trip Down River

Date: 06 04 1909
Description: A group of Holts and Macartneys is posing for a photograph after completing a trip down the river. Standing next to the wagon, W.A. Holt is holding an oar....

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