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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Madison water tower and farmers' market as seen through the stone gateway at the East Washington Avenue entrance to the Capitol Park. The building on t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front view of C.F. Rau's furniture store, with the owners and employees sitting in front of the store. Apparently, the store also performs undertaking. The... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A portion of John B. Heim's map of the Water Works System of Madison showing the size of the third Wisconsin Capitol (228' x 226') in comparison with the C... |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with toy boats at a small pond at Reservoir Park. Other children and adults are around the pond which is on a hill. In the background below the... |
| Date: | 08 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Syl playing with other children at reservoir park near a small waterfall. Toy boats are in the pond. |
| Date: | 05 28 1899 |
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| Description: | View down gravel path towards Syl seated on a bench along the edge of a reservoir on a hill. There is a brick building, perhaps a pumphouse, built over the... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | City water works system map. Pencil annotation on the top right reads: "Period represented is after 1887 and before Aug. 1891". The middle of the map has a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on paper. The map shows buildings, trees, and water and gas pipes, relief is shown by contours. The back of the map reads: "Univers... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Shows pipes of various sizes, hydrants with hydrant pressure, valves, wells, and projected lines. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Shows pipes of various sizes, hydrants with hydrant pressure, valves, wells, and projected lines. Differs from earlier versions by inclusion of Wingra Park... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Shows pipes of various sizes, hydrants with hydrant pressure, valves, wells, projected lines, and suction pipes. Differs from earlier versions by inclusion... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | This map shows lot and block numbers, railroads, street car tracks, sewers, water mains, gas mains, paved streets, land owned by the Land & River Improveme... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | This map shows water pipes, hydrants, stop cocks, check valves, fire cysterns, and manholes. Also shown are block numbers, streets, railroads, parks, cemet... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | This map shows pipes of various sizes, hydrants with hydrant pressure, valves, wells, and projected lines. Includes labels for roadways, blocks, wards, par... |
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