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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View of the C.M. & St. Paul depot with railroad tracks running along side. A man is standing in an arched service entrance. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Painting by C.A. Youngquist of an elevated view for the proposed pavilion for the Pan-Pacific exposition. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View along dirt path in a park. There is a soldier's monument in the background just beyond trees, and a brick building on the left. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of a canoe and sailboat on Lake Mendota. In the background is the city skyline on the far shoreline. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of boats and sailboats on Lake Mendota, looking towards Maple Bluff, perhaps from Governor's Island or Rocky Roost. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River north of Lake Mendota. Trees are on the banks to the left with foliage throughout. A meadow is on the right. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River at Lake Monona, with trees in the background and wetlands in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Oil painting of a double row of willow trees on University Bay Drive. A trail winds between them. Boulders line the shore of Lake Mendota on the left. A tu... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River at Lake Monona. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the Yahara River, somewhere between Lake Monona and Lake Mendota. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of Lake Monona from asylum grounds or Governor's Island. On the far shoreline is Madison and the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Watercolor, painted by Max Otto, of Main Hall (later renamed Bascom Hall) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The watercolor predates the 1917 fire tha... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting of the State Historical Society headquarters building by Paul Duesler. This painting is associated with the 1967 building addition plan... |
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| Description: | House was located at 530 N. Pinckney Street (this is not the house most strongly connected with Swenson called Thorstrand that still exists). According to ... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | View of Cheever's Mill, located on the St. Croix River. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | View of the gorge at St. Croix with a boat and multiple figures visible in the background. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | The Napoleon B. Van Slyke house located at 510 N. Carroll Street. The house was built for Van Slyke by A. Kutzbock about 1868. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting Chippewa Falls and the first sawmill on the Chippewa River, built by Jean Brunet. The residence of H.S. Allen, one of the owners of the... |
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| Description: | Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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... |
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