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Published (and unpublished) articles from Connecting With Our Past

1906 Landmarks

Abby Allin Curtiss

Abiel Brooks House (9/8/03)

Affordable Housing

African American Mayoral Candidates (3/14/05)

Alanson Sweet (8/14/06)

Andrew Ward

Angle Worm Station Boat Landing (11/10/03)

Annie Stewart Fountain

Aubertine Woodward Moore

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

Boating in the Storm

Bridge Over Monona Bay (9/22/03)

Camp Randall Prison Camp (11/17/03)

Canal Across the Isthmus

Capitol Burned

Capitol Collapse (9/1/03)

Capitol Park Extension

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)

Equal Opportunities

Fairchild Block Explosion (6/7/04)

Featherstonhaugh Family

First Children (9/6/04)

Flu (10/26/04)

Football Fanatics (2/2/04)

Forest Hill Cemetery

Fred Risser (7/17/06)

Gas Lights (2/7/05)

Gates of Heaven Synagogue (8/4/03)

Gypsies

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)

Levi Baker Vilas

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)

Old Fashioned Fourth 1843

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)

School Teacher Murdered, 1914

Shopping Centers (4/26/04)

Shopping the Square, 1899

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)

Thor's Beach, Thorstrand Road

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)

War of 1812 Soldiers

West High School (5/19/03)

Wild Youth

Williamson Street (4/4/05)

Woman's Club Building (1/5/04)