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Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
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First Wisconsin Unemployment Check

Date: 08 17 1936
Description: Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud.
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Camp Randall

Date: 1861
Description: Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been...
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) with Minarets

Date: 1891
Description: Chromolithograph of the third Wisconsin State Capitol with a U.S. flag atop the dome. The colored illustration was produced by the Milwaukee Lithography an...
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 1870
Description: The third Wisconsin Capitol (the second in Madison) as it appeared shortly after the construction was completed.
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Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1887
Description: View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol from the pages of the Wisconsin Blue Book.
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Wisconsin Centennial First Day Cover

Date: 05 29 1948
Description: The 100th Anniversary of Wisconsin Statehood envelope on the first day it was issued on May 29, 1948. It is addressed to Governor Oscar Rennebohm, State of...
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La Follette Handbill

Date: 1903
Description: Handbill advertising two lectures at the Monona Lake Assembly, near Madison in July 1903. First was a debate on "The Negro Problem" between Senator J.R. B...
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Governor Barstow Inset

Date: 1857
Description: Inset of an engraved portrait of Governor William Barstow.
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Coles Bashford Inset

Date: 1857
Description: Inset of an engraved portrait of Governor Coles Bashford.
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Park Hotel

Date: 1907
Description: Card advertising the Park Hotel on the Capitol Square. Includes a drawing of the hotel, and a fish on a fishhook at the end of a fishing line. Text reads: ...
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Park Hotel

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of city traffic in front of the Park Hote. From a map in the manuscripts division.
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Cartoon of Bill Passed

Date: 09 31 1961
Description: A cartoon of a passed bill leaving Assembly holding a sign that reads, "Look Ma, No Veto!".
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Cartoon of Rejected Bill

Date: 1961
Description: A cartoon of a rejected bill being sent away by a man in a top hat, who is holding back a dog on a leash.
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Wisconsin State Journal Advertisement

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Description: An advertisement for the Wisconsin State Journal, promoted as "the only Republican paper", from the 1898-1899 Madison City Directory.
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Festival Choir Concert Poster

Date: 04 1975
Description: Poster announcing "Festival Choir," a concert of music from America, conducted by David Crosby, at several venues in Madison and Monona, Wisconsin. Feature...
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Governor La Follette Christmas Postcard

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Description: Holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Philip F. La Follette. On the front of the card is an image of the Wisconsin State Capitol covered in snow. On the righ...
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Blessed Holiday Season

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Description: Photographic holiday card from Governor and Mrs. Martin Schreiber and family, governor of Wisconsin 1977-1979. The front of the card is an image of the fam...
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Capital Christmas

Date: 1937
Description: Holiday card from Palmer F. Daugs, alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936, candidate for U.S. Senate in 1954 and candidate for Wi...
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German American Bank (Madison, Wis.) Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the German American Bank, with a front view of one of the triangular buildings (Suhr building) on the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. Peo...

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