Connecting With Our Past
Panoramic drawing of Madison, looking from the University toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. Among the locations identified along the border of the image are the Presbyterian Church, Lake Mendota, City Hall, the Capitol, the Episcopal Church, the Congregational Church, Park Hotel, St. Raphael Cathedral, and Lake Monona. (WHS Image ID 109452)
Published (and unpublished) articles from Connecting With Our Past
Abiel Brooks House (9/8/03)
African American Mayoral Candidates (3/14/05)
Alanson Sweet (8/14/06)
Angle Worm Station Boat Landing (11/10/03)
Autos (6/28/04)
Aviation (4/5/04)
Badger Football 1905 (10/24/05)
Barter: Painting from Belmont Hotel (7/4/04)
Basketball First Big Ten Season
Bridge Over Monona Bay (9/22/03)
Camp Randall Prison Camp (11/17/03)
Capitol Collapse (9/1/03)
Carnival (7/10/06)
Censorship (3/22/04)
Charles N. Brown (9/11/06)
Chicago Fire and Horace Tenney (3/19/07)
Cigarettes (11/14/05)
Cottagers (5/23/05)
Crazy Man, Jacob Schmitz, 1873
David Atwood (5/9/05)
Deadly Cannon (7/3/06)
Death Corner: South Murray Street & Desmond Court (11/24/03)
Death Penalty (1/8/07)
Dividing Ridge (8/18/03)
Dress Code (8/15/05)
East Washington Avenue (1/31/05)
Electric Lights (11/21/05)
Elmside, 2709 Sommers Avenue (5/12/03)
End of Bicycles (3/20/06)
Fairchild Block Explosion (6/7/04)
First Children (9/6/04)
Flu (10/26/04)
Football Fanatics (2/2/04)
Fred Risser (7/17/06)
Gas Lights (2/7/05)
Gates of Heaven Synagogue (8/4/03)
Halloween Shenanigans (6/21/04)
Hans Christian Heg Statue (12/8/03)
Harrison L. Garner Park (9/20/04)
Harvey Hospital Marker (8/2/04)
Haunted Joseph Stoner House (5/26/03)
Highland Park (2/20/06)
Hired Girls (5/17/04)
Hollywood in Madison (3/1/04)
Hospital (6/4/07)
Iroquois Theater Fire & Magnus Swenson (12/26/05)
Jefferson Davis and Madison (11/3/03)
Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin(8/30/04)
Jubilee: 50th Anniversary of First UW Commencement (5/31/04)
Klan Clean Up (9/4/06)
Lakeside Water Cure (5/30/05)
Lantry Mausoleum (2/16/04)
Larkin Street (6/9/03)
Last Village President (4/10/06)
Legislative Scandal: Barstow vs. Bashford (12/20/04)
Little Dutch Mill Restaurant (1/2/06)
Louise Marston (6/27/05)
Madison in 1843 (2/28/05)
Madison Park and Pleasure Drive Association (10/13/03)
Man Behind the Field (1/12/04)
Mayor George Sayle's 1919 Plan for Madison (7/4/05)
Memorial Day (5/29/06)
Michael J. Quann Park (11/8/04)
Michael Olbrich (5/2/05)
Monona Lake Assembly (7/28/03)
Morgan Sisters Downtown Memories (9/6/05)
Nasty Elections (11/29/04)
O'Keeffe's in Madison (11/13/06)
Original Names of the Four Lake Country (6/14/04)
Orton Park Cemetery (6/16/03)
Owen Drive Rocks (9/15/03)
Perfect Mate for a College Man, 1919 (5/3/04)
Pierce Family (1/30/06)
Pioneer Festival, 1856 (7/11/05)
Pledge of Allegiance Controversy (5/22/06)
Police Chief Henry Baker (6/6/05)
Railroad Comes to Madison, 1854 (3/29/04)
Railroad Stations (8/25/03)
Republicans (7/11/04)
Resurrection Cemetery (3/8/04)
Richard B. Dudgeon (9/13/04)
Robert Prideaux (2/26/07)
Roundhouse Explosion (1/22/07)
Runaway Train (8/28/06)
St. James Catholic Church (3/21/05)
St. Raphael's Cathedral (2/9/04)
San Francisco Earthquake (4/3/06)
Shopping Centers (4/26/04)
Slaves (4/24/06)
Slot Machines (1/26/04)
Spooner (12/27/04)
State Street Houses (10/10/05)
Stephen D. "Pump" Carpenter (10/3/05)
Suburbs (8/11/03)
Summer Resort (6/19/06)
Sweets (12/6/04)
Swimming (1/24/05)
Thomas E. Brittingham (7/31/06)
Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too (2/19/07)
Tobacco: Hiestand-McCoy Farm (5/5/03)
Tornado of 1878 (7/25/04)
Triathlon: Historic Swims, Bike Rides and Walks (10/3/04)
Turville Point (7/21/03)
University Book Store (8/21/06)
University Heights (5/21/07)
West High School (5/19/03)
Williamson Street (4/4/05)
Woman's Club Building (1/5/04)