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Soldiers' Orphans Home
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Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by August Kutzbock and Samuel H. Donnel, architects of the third Wisconsin State Capitol.
1870
Curtiss, E. R. (Edwin Rodney), 1836-1906
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WHi 2690
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