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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the first Wisconsin Territorial Capitol, which was rented by the Legislature who met there for 46 days in 1836. The building was restored in 19... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin State Capitol Executive Chamber. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior of Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda at entrances of the South and West galleries. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the third Wisconsin State Capitol built in Madison in 1906-1917. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of the east gallery of the Wisconsin State Capitol. By 1911, the commission learned that the quarry that supplied the red granite for the piers on... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Three ornamental sculptures on the base of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two ornamental sculptures at the base of the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The figures represent Abundance and Prosperity. |
| Date: | 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Starting to raise "Wisconsin" statue onto the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol (the fourth State Capitol, the third in Madison, 1906 - ). The gilded bro... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol (fourth capitol, third in Madison) under construction. View from South Hamilton Street. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol (the fourth State Capitol, the third in Madison, 1906 - ) dome under construction. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Carvers at work on the Karl Bitter sculpture for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison). Between 1911 and 1913, a group of stone cutters (ma... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from the top of the Wisconsin State Capitol looking east down King Street toward Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona with a tree, pier and boat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | The corner of Main and Pinckney Streets with the Tenney building. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A balloon about to ascend in Minneapolis. John Schwister, who later built the Minnesota-Badger airplane, is in the front of the gondola, with his back to t... |
| Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
| Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
| Date: | 09 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
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