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| Date: | 08 1907 |
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| Description: | The dismantling of the dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol began with the removal of the 32-foot flagpole. The eagle at the top of the pole was an 18... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | The construction of the East Wing of the new Capitol is underway. This is a view of the North and South Wings and the dome of the Third Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
| Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
| Date: | 10 10 1902 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Wright gliding down the steep slope of Big Kill Devil Hill at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Much of the Wright Brothers' success derived from the fact... |
| Date: | 08 26 1908 |
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| Description: | Women employees of Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co. (TMERL) competing a foot race at the third company outing. |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake... |
| Date: | 03 1909 |
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| Description: | Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of an advertising leaflet for Aultman, Miller and Company. The advertisement includes color illustrations of the horse-drawn Buckeye r... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Portion of an advertising leaflet for Aultmann, Miller and Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in the field with a horse-dr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the farmers' market at the base of the water tower (not in view) in front of the Washington Building. There is a Wisconsin State Journal s... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of headers and header binders. Features a color chromolithograph illustrat... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of tillage and seeding implements. Features a color chromolithogra... |
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