Madison
Madison names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Madison a city, county-seat of Dane co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city, county-seat of Dane co., and capital of the State of Wisconsin; on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern, and the Illinois Central railroads; 75 miles W. of Milwaukee. It is situated in the Four Lake country, being built on a strip of land between Lakes Mendota and Monona. It contains the capital, county court house, county jail, University of Wisconsin, State Institution for the Insane, United States Government Building, Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and several libraries. It has electric street railroads, gas and electric lights, waterworks, National and State banks, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city air is a well-known summer resort, its being recommended as beneficial for lung has a large trade in agridiseases. It cultural productions, manufactories of bicycles, machinery, farming implements, carriages, wagons, etc. Pop. (1910) 25,- 531; (1920) 38,378.
Madison a city and county-seat of Jefferson co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Jefferson co., Ind.; on the Ohio river, and on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis railroad; 45 miles N. of Louisville, Ky. The city has steamboat connection with various places on the Kentucky, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers. It contains a public library, electric lights, National banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers, and the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, and has many manufactories, ship lumber yards, shipyards, and cotton and woolen mills. Pop. (1910) 6,934; (1920) 6,711.
Madison town in Madison co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
town in Madison co., Ill., two miles from St. Louis, Mo. A dozen different railway systems meet in vicinity, and the town is almost wholly industrial. The manufacturing establishments include iron and steel mills, railroad shops, lead plants, and stone mills. The town has schools and libraries. Pop. (1910) 5,046; (1920) 4,996.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's counted 38,378 people in Madison, Wisconsin in 1920; the 2020 census recorded about 270,000, making it the state's second-largest city, and the University of Wisconsin it lists now enrolls roughly 50,000 students. The "State Institution for the Insane" on Lake Mendota survives as the Mendota Mental Health Institute, but the bicycle and carriage works have given way to state government, health care and computing. Madison, Indiana, then 6,711 and shrinking, has roughly doubled to about 12,000, and its riverfront core — largely intact from the steamboat era Collier's describes — was made a National Historic Landmark district. Madison, Illinois, the wholly industrial railroad town of 4,996, has gone the other way: the steel and lead plants closed and fewer than 3,000 people remain, though the site now hosts a major auto-racing track just outside St. Louis.
Written for this edition, 2026.