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Surveying Fire Damage in the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1904
Description: The remains of a second floor corridor in the North Wing of the Third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27-28, 1904. This photograph docum...
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Surveying Fire Damage in the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 02 1904
Description: Second floor corridor of the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south, after the fire of February 27, 1904. The view is through the c...
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Surveying Fire Damage to the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 02 1904
Description: Ruins of the Senate Chamber at the Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 26-27.
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Fire Damage to the Third Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 02 1904
Description: The office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in the East Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27.
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: Ruins of the second floor of the North Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south, after the fire. The blaze nearly destroyed the entire buil...
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Capitol Steps Dancers

Date: 1900
Description: "Living flag" created by the Kehl dancers on the steps of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This close view permits better examination of the ornamentatio...
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: Ruins of the second floor of the North Wing (looking south), after the fire that destroyed most of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. In addition to the ch...
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: Ruins of the Senate Chamber in the Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 26-27. Here the damage was almost total, leaving only a piece of plas...
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: A close-up of the damage caused to the third Wisconsin State Capitol by the fire of February 26-27, showing the first floor, and looking west through the R...
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Surveying Fire Damage

Date: 02 1904
Description: Second floor corridor of the South Wing in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, looking south, after the fire. The view is across the Rotunda, showing the he...
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Fire at the Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 02 1904
Description: View of the crowd standing at the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol watching the fire that destroyed most of the building. Because the University w...
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Indianapolis McCormick building

Date: 1900
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company general agency(?) building in Indianapolis, Indiana. Men are gathered outside the building with horses and harvesting ...
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Opera House

Date: 1905
Description: View of the front of the Opera House. Caption reads: "Opera House, Amherst, Wis."
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Congregational Church

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of Congregational Church with stained glass windows.
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Armory Company G, 2nd Infantry

Date: 1906
Description: Armory Company G, 2nd Infantry.
Postcard

John Street Bridge

Date: 09 18 1907
Description: John Street Bridge crossing the river on the left, with industrial buildings and smokestacks in the distance on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Joh...
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John Street Bridge

Date: 1905
Description: Elevated view of John Street Bridge. Caption reads: "John Street Bridge, Appleton, Wis. Largest stone arch bridge in Wisconsin." A railroad bridge runs acr...
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Interior of St. Paul's Lutheran Church

Date: 1909
Description: The nave and altar of St. Paul's, with Gothic arches and stained glass windows. Caption reads: "St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Appleton, Wis."
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John Street Bridge

Date: 1906
Description: Elevated view of the bridge, which is intersected by a railroad bridge. Caption reads: "John St. Bridge, Appleton, Wis. Largest stone arch bridge in Wiscon...
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Knight Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: This building was named the Knight Block and contained retail on the first floor, business offices on the second floor and the Knight Hotel on the third, f...

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