Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison. "Taken from the Water Cure, South Side of Lake Monona, 1855." |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Half plate daguerreotype, with view across water of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin harbor showing the bridge over the Fox River. Moored on the opposite shore are t... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Detail from a lithograph vignette on a Map of the City of Madison of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, the first Capitol in Madison. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Elizabeth Mears, also known as Nellie Wildwood. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Portrait of Byron Kilbourn, Milwaukee businessman. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Part of George Harrison's "Map of the City of Madison," showing the development of the isthmus and the small size of the second Capitol (54' x 104') in com... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | A portrait of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, 1853-1857. Pierce was born on November 23, 1804 in Hillsboro, New Hampshire and died O... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype of a brick structure, possibly in Green Bay, Wisconsin, housing the office of J.S. Baker, Land Agent. The building is three stories... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Plan of the Senate Chamber for the second Wisconsin State Capitol (the first in Madison), showing the seating arrangement. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Plan of the Assembly Hall in the second Wisconsin State Capitol showing the seating arrangement. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | "Ancient copper mining on Lake Superior." |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Early view of the house built by Madison's first mayor, Jairus C. Fairchild, at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877) at West Wilson S... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Chronicle newspaper office, the first building on the townsite of Superior, built in 1853 by William C. Howenstine, John T. Morgan, and August Zachau. |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Map of the city of Madison, Dane County, published by George Harrison, surveyed and drawn by P. McCabe, and engraved by J.H. Colton & Co., New York. In add... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Advertisment of Leonard J. Farwell from the 1855 Madison City Directory for the real estate property he had for sale. At the time Farwell was the largest ... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Church built in 1855 for First Presbyterian congregation. In May 1892, fire destroyed the interior. The congregation sold the damaged building to the Bapti... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Map of Madison and surrounding communities, referred to as the four lakes country. Text bordering the map includes an excerpt of a letter written by Horace... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location ... |
Date: | 1855 |
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Description: | Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ... |
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