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| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an amateur painting, probably representing the "first house in Madison, Wisconsin." The Peck Cabin, one of the many free variations o... |
| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Ox-drawn cart in which Mr. and Mrs. Salmon Upson traveled from Connecticut in 1838. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brady of Virginia, son of Captain Samuel Brady. Half-length, facing front with torso turned slightly to right. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Illustrations of 5 different canoes. Caption reads: "Plate 9, opp. pg. 66. Vol. 1, Indian Tribes of the United States. ed. Francis S. Drake, 1884. A... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A formal photographic portrait of the Potowatomi chief Shab-eh-nay (Shau-be-na, or Shabbona), who died in 1859. Shab-eh-nay was photographed shortly before... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of George W. Peck standing next to a chair. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Janesville Countryside. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated wintertime view of the intersection of South Carroll and West Main Streets, showing the First Baptist Church constructed in 1854, the wooden fence... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Janesville with a residential area in the foreground and the business district in the background. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Corporal Chris Early, Company K, 13th Wisconsin Infantry. Died on May 18, 1865 of a disease. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of Corporal Charles Stewart (b. 1832), Company B, 8th Wisconsin Infantry, wearing the one of the grey uniforms in which Wisconsin's first e... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Captain William A. Hawley standing near a column. |
| Date: | 10 1861 |
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| Description: | Three-Quarter length portrait of Charles W. Gulliford, Company B, 12th Wisconsin Infantry, with musket. Photograph was taken at Camp Randall. |
| Date: | 11 11 1861 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Madison from Main Hall, now Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin campus. North Hall and South Hall are in the foreground. Lake Men... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Lewis S. Burton, Company B, 30th Wisconsin Infantry, standing in full uniform with his sword on his left si... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of 1st Lieutenant Samuel W. Smith (from Mineral Point), Company E, 30th Wisconsin Infantry. |
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