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| Date: | 11 25 1871 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of Peshtigo Fire showing people trying to escape the flames by boat and on horseback. A team of cattle also seek refuge and several birds tak... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Sample tables in the Grain Exchange Room of the Chamber of Commerce Building. The Milwaukee Grain Exchange was a pioneer in grain trading with their develo... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | A Menominee village as depicted by Francois, Comte de Castelnau, a French naturalist and diplomat who visited the Green Bay area about 1838. The detailed, ... |
| Date: | 1831 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Fort Winnebago (near present-day Portage) that illustrated "Wau-Bun," Juliette Kinzie's memoir of her experiences on the early Wisconsin fronti... |
| Date: | 05 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Floor plan and seating chart for the Assembly for their first meeting in the East Wing of new Wisconsin State Capitol building. After the completion of th... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The only known visual documentation of the Senate Chamber in the third Wisconsin Capitol. It was probably more colorful than it appears here. In 1869 a rep... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of legislators in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 03 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1899 Assembly Chamber photograph, showing a row of legislators at their desks. Until well into the 20th century, individual legislators had n... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1899 Senate photograph, showing details such as the president's chair (much more ornamented than the Assembly Speaker's chair) and desk with ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker... |
| Date: | 1829 |
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| Description: | Drawing of Cassville depicting a horse cart on the river's edge, with men and boats. |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Fond du Lac Company House. Groups of Indians are in the yard outside the inn, and several Indian dwellings are erected next to it. A man on horseback with ... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the property of the Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, with circle drive and people walking the grounds. |
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| Description: | Hanks house, the residence of Lucien Stanley Hanks, 201 (216?) Langdon Street. |
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