Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
Date: | 09 22 1860 |
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Description: | Sketch from the "New York Illustrated News" of the sinking of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin. She was struck and sunk by the Augusta on ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | A woodprint of women with frightened child entitled "The First Dip Into Salt Water." |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Engraving from a painting of John Adams. Inscription reads: "John Adams From a Painting by Chappel, in the possession of the Publishers. Johnson, Fry & C... |
Date: | 05 1866 |
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Description: | Engraved exterior view of a smelting furnace with a small group of men with horses gathered in front. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | An engraving from a daguerreotype of Ulysses S. Grant. |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t... |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders engraving of Cordelia Harvey. |
Date: | 04 23 1861 |
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Description: | Recruiting poster for the "Patriots of St. Croix" to "take up arms". |
Date: | 07 24 1862 |
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Description: | Poster calling for the recruitment of volunteers from Grant County for the Union Army during the Civil War. |
Date: | 1864 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison, with 12 vignettes and in the center is "The Capitol of Wisconsin View from the Capitol House". The buildings on the top are, fr... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building. |
Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Portrait engraving of James Monroe from a painting by Alonzo Chappel. |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva... |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Advertisement for the Edge T. Cope & Son reaper, with views of the side and rear delivery. |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Advertising brochure for Russell & Company's Ohio Reaper and Mower, distributed by Chas. A. Taylor, agent for Peoria, Illinois. Features an illustration of... |
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