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Photograph

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1837
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...
Drawing

Madison Landscape

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of view overlooking Madison. The sketch looks down North Hamilton Street from the capitol. Rutted, irregular streets and frame houses mark ...
Drawing

Madison from University Hill

Date: 1852
Description: Pencil drawing of Madison landscape as seen from University Hill. The main street in the center is State Street, and the building with Greek columns in the...
Painting

Green Bay Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . The first in their series was not an 'improvement' but a view of the Green Bay settlement, looking downstream. From a simulated rustic fence corner...
Painting

Portage Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "After painting a number of Fox River scenes, "the artists continued their way to Fond du Lac, at the south end of Lake Winnebago, where they found some mo...
Painting

Grand Kakalin (South Kaukauna) Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "The second view at the Kakalin, from the north side of the river, shows the first or guard lock in the foreground and beyond the dam the large frame build...
Painting

De Pere Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . At De Pere they stopped on the west shore for a broad sketch of the dwellings clustered on both sides of the river. The distant dam, the mills, ware...
Painting

Little Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center . . . [One of them] is Little Chute, one of the pleasan...
Painting

Double Lock Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center. The first, a double lock around which the village of C...
Painting

Grand Chute Painting

Date: 1856
Description: " . . . At Grand Chute stood the young settlement of Appleton. Although only a few years old, it already boasted a college, named, as was the village itsel...
Painting

Grand Kakalin (Kaukauna) Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "At the Grand Kakalin where the river runs almost directly eastward, Brookes and Stevenson paused to paint two scenes. One was a broad landscape showing th...
Painting

Cedar Rapids Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "Three views in a short space show the peaceful appearance of what is now a busy paper mills center....The third, another rural river scene, whose composit...
Painting

Rapid Croche, Fox River Painting

Date: 1856
Description: "....The third view was twelve miles farther up the river [from De Pere], at Rapid Croche, on the border of the present Brown and Outagamie counties. It is...
Photograph

Stereograph View of a Man by a Lake

Date: 1870
Description: Man wearing "stove-pipe" hat, standing looking out over a lake.
Photograph

Stereograph of the St. Croix River

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of the dalles of the St. Croix river, on the Wisconsin-Minnesota border. Along the shoreline on the right, a woman in a long dress is posing on...
Photograph

Aftermath of Peshtigo Fire

Date: 1871
Description: Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel...
Drawing

East Side Residence of A.A. Arnold

Date: 1877
Description: View of cattle, sheep, and pigs in a pasture on a farm. Two houses are in the distance, and a horse-drawn carriage is moving along the road on the left. Ca...
Book or Pamphlet

Winnebago Wigwam

Date: 1884
Description: Indians standing and sitting near wigwams. Four wigwam frames are covered, with the one on the right uncovered, with a campfire inside. In the distance are...
Photograph

White River Bridge

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view of the Wiscsonsin Central's bridge over the White River, about six miles south of Ashland. The bridge was 1600 ft. long and 110 ft. above the...
Painting

Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1893
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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