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First Three Buildings on the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 1865
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison campus showing the first three buildings on campus, South Hall (left), University Hall [Bascom Hall] (center), and North Ha...
Map or Atlas

Plat Map of Sun Prairie

Date: 1890
Description: Color plat map of Sun Prairie.
Drawing

Madison Female Academy

Date: 1848
Description: Sketch of the Madison Women's Seminary on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and East Johnson. The Madison Female Academy was a 19th century school for girls w...
Photograph

Carla Burton Residence

Date: 1872
Description: Two women and a man stand in a garden that has trellises with Greek Revival frame house in background. The house has a small one story addition in back. Fa...
Photograph

First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
Photograph

Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family and Visitors

Date: 1877
Description: "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Students

Date: 1869
Description: Group portrait of University of Wisconsin students, perhaps a graduating class, on the lawn in front of Main Hall (later Bascom Hall).
Book or Pamphlet

Chapman's Medical School Brochure

Date: 1852
Description: Circular and catalogue advertising Dr. Chandler B. Chapman's "Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery." Madison, 1852.
Document

Madison Female Seminary Prospectus

Date: 1856
Description: Prospectus for the Madison Female Seminary, then operated by Joseph C. Pickard.
Drawing

Second Ward School

Date: 01 23 1869
Description: Second Ward School with a teacher and students in the schoolyard.
Photograph

First and Second Grade Class

Date: 1888
Description: First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran...
Photograph

4th Ward Students

Date: 1884
Description: Class picture of the fourth ward pupils of Madison. 1. Caroline Young, 2. Belle Griffiths 3. Carrie Kohner 4. Irma Kleinpell 5. Annie McConnell 6. Matie Ja...
Photograph

Fourth Ward

Date: 1884
Description: 1. ? Rarnsdall 2. Florence Ketchem 3. Hattie Stephenson 4. ? Carver 5. Addie McConnell 6. Delia Lawerence 7. Madeline Slightam 8. Annie Kingston 9. Maud Va...
Print

Senior Reception Menu

Date: 06 28 1887
Description: Menu for a senior reception catered by W.H. Burleson, with a wide border of pig or demon half-faces, and in the center a figure in a kimono and sandals wit...
Photograph

Proposed Site of Library Building

Date: 1894
Description: Caption from photograph: "Proposed site of library building. Wis[consin] Histor[ical] Soc[iety].--looking N.W. Building would occupy place now covered by t...
Photograph

2nd Ward School

Date: 1867
Description: View across street towards the front of the 2nd Ward School building, which was located at 720 E. Gorham Street.
Photograph

Edgewood Villa Fire

Date: 1893
Description: Group of people standing near two buildings which burned in 1893. In the center background is Edgewood Villa, a home purchased by Governor C.C. (Cadwallade...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin — Bascom Hill View

Date: 1860
Description: Elevated view over dwellings and yards towards Bascom Hall, with South and North Halls on the left and right of Bascom Hill, and Music Hall with its clock ...
Photograph

Bradford W. Gillett

Date: 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Bradford W. Gillett, who was a teacher, shopkeeper, and principal of schools in Middleton, Belleville, and Avoca. He was active...
Photograph

Charles Kendall Adams

Date: 1892
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Kendall Adams, president of Cornell University (1885-1892), and of the University of Wisconsin (1892-1901).

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