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Charles McCarthy and Legislative Reference Library Staff

Date: 08 08 1906
Description: Dr. Charles R. McCarthy and staff at the Legislative Reference Library.
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Wisconsin House

Date: 1909
Description: Exterior view of the front and side of the Wisconsin House.
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Testing Spring Teeth at Osborne Works

Date: 03 18 1913
Description: Factory workers testing newly manufactured harrow spring teeth at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The factory was owned by the D.M. Osborne Compan...
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Group of Workers Posing on Flat Cars Loaded with Lumber

Date: 09 21 1914
Description: Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ...
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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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One-Armed International Harvester Factory Worker

Date: 10 12 1910
Description: One-armed factory worker in a suit and bowler hat posing against a brick wall. The man likely worked at International Harvester's Osborne Works.
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International Harvester Employee

Date: 04 01 1915
Description: Old man wearing a suit and hat with his back against a brick wall. The man is likely an employee at International Harvester's Osborne Works. One of his leg...
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Workers in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Reaper Works. In 1902 the factory became part of the International Harvester Company.
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Alfred C. Clas

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f...
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Glenn Curtiss and Post

Date: 07 1910
Description: Airplane inventor Glenn Curtiss (with moustache), and his friend and fellow aviator Augustus Post, to his right. Although identified by Warner to 1909, it ...
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Pablo the Magician

Date: 06 17 1932
Description: Pablo the Magician holding a "Capital Times" newspaper in the lobby of the Orpheum Theatre. He is using the newspaper in his act with Fanchon and Marco's s...
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International Wholesale Fruit Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c...
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Office of Judge Marshall

Date: 1904
Description: Office of Roujet Delisle Marshall, who served as Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice 1895-1918. The judge's office was located in one of the octagon tower room...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court

Date: 1903
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...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Treasurer's Office

Date: 1913
Description: Staff of the State Treasurer at work. Although the office was clearly located in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, this photograph may have been taken aft...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assemblyman

Date: 1909
Description: Otto Onstad, a newly elected assemblyman from Dane County, in the newly constructed Assembly Chamber of the present Wisconsin State Capitol. He is sitting ...
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Rennebohms on Odana Road

Date: 1979
Description: Steven O. Kimbrough outside the Rennebohm Drug Store No. 20, 6725 Odana Road, with the Beltline in the distance. In 1970 Kimbrough and photographer Chuck P...
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Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman

Date: 01 05 1953
Description: Portrait of Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman in formal dress at the inaugaration of state officers. He was beginning his tenth term in that office.
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St. Josaphat's Church Construction Workers

Date: 1910
Description: Construction workers are posed in front of the partially-built St. Josaphat's Church on scaffolding and wooden steps near large columns. There are two chil...

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