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Wade House

Date: 1858
Description: Ambrotype of the Wade House, a carriage inn located in Greenbush, also showing a section of the original plank road in the foreground.
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The Wisconsin State Assembly in Session

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Chamber

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: Elevated view of legislators in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph, showing the visitors' gallery, the oversize brackets that supported it, and the ornamentation of the gallery. As...
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Men on the Balcony of Rocky Roost

Date: 09 18 1892
Description: Four men sit on the balcony of Rocky Roost, the vacation home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Located west of Governor's Island in Lake Mendota. The men ar...
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Depot and Mineral Springs Hotel

Date: 1875
Description: View across unpaved road towards a group of men standing on the platform at the train depot, with the Mineral Springs Hotel behind and to the right. Anothe...
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Hotel Chequamegon

Date: 1885
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Hotel Chequamegon

Date: 1899
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Chequamegon Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the original Hotel Chequamegon, built by the Wisconsin Central Railroad interests and opened in 1877. It was built of wood with a wrap around porch...
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Park House Hotel

Date: 1890
Description: View of the Park House Hotel (called the Commercial House before 1888), which burned down in 1892. Two people are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle on the l...
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Cawker (Colonel E. Harrison) Residence

Date: 1890
Description: Cawker (Colonel E. Harrison) residence.
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Meggett Building on Barstow

Date: 1884
Description: Stereograph of three-story brick building on a dirt road.
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Peabody House

Date: 1875
Description: Front view of the inn. Several men and women are either standing or sitting on the balcony, and several people are standing on the porch under the balcony....
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Lindon House

Date: 1870
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Lindon House. Two women are standing on the second floor front balcony.
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Avery House, Superior City, Wisconsin

Date: 1880
Description: Exterior view of the Avery House, with groups of people gathered on its porches and balcony.
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) near Madison.
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Alba House

Date: 1860
Description: View across intersection towards the Alba House, with individuals standing outside its entrance and on the balcony.
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Hotel Juneau

Date: 1895
Description: Necedah, Wisconsin. 1895-1899. Hotel Juneau with several people on front porch and balcony. On the middle balcony appear (the sequence is ambiguous) : Sila...
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Opera House

Date: 1883
Description: The Oshkosh Grand Opera House. This is the interior elevated view showing the curtain painted by Louis Kindt of Kenosha, which depicts a scene from Goethe'...
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Indian Students at Government School

Date: 1896
Description: Indian boys and girls pose for a group portrait outdoors in front of the government school.

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