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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug... |
| 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: | 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: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph, showing the visitors' gallery, the oversize brackets that supported it, and the ornamentation of the gallery. As... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | View of the First Norwegian Lutheran Church interior looking up the aisle between the pews and towards the altar. Double oil chandeliers are hanging from t... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Distant view from hill of a barnyard with people, split-rail fencing, cattle, a Norwegian-style barn with cupola and rooster weather vane and an animal bui... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is posed in a yard around a table, with a boy holding his hat. Behind them is a substantial two-story bracket style frame house with a widow's wal... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Two men, one holding a sword, and a woman are posing on the steps of a two-story bracket style house with a parapet roof and brick foundation. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family stands in the yard of a large frame bracket style house that has carpenter's lace, trim above windows, shutters, latticework at porch and a stone ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A family is seated around a table in the middle of a garden path, and a man stands on the porch of the frame house behind them. The house has carpenter's l... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Men stand in the yard, and a woman stands on the porch of a frame house with double brackets, double front doors with screen doors and a double walkway lea... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | On the left a woman sits side saddle on a horse, and on the right two men are on a wagon hitched to two horses. Between them are a group of men in front of... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A family is posed around two trees in a yard. A man sits on a chaise lounge and a woman in a striped dress sits in a rocking chair with a shawl on its back... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Four women are posing in a yard among trees, and one woman is sitting on the porch of the house. A dog is sitting in a chair in the yard near one of the wo... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A young boy, two men and four women are seated in a row the yard of a frame house with latticework on the porch foundations, brick steps on the side, small... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two men, two women are posing in front of a frame house that has a chair, sofa, table and a small white statue on its front porch. There are three doors an... |
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