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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior - Museum of the Historical Society

Date: 1900
Description: The Daniel Webster carriage on display in the Historical Society's museum in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. At that time the Historical Society's quart...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Museum Exhibit

Date: 1900
Description: Artifacts from the New Richmond tornado on display in the Historical Society's museum in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The display of such curiosities, now ...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Library Sculptures

Date: 02 14 1945
Description: Ruth Marson with the Vinnie Reem sculpture collection in a storeroom at the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Architectural Exhibit

Date: 03 27 1945
Description: Professor J.F. Kienitz, on the left, and Edward J. Law, committee member of the Historic American Buildings Survey in Wisconsin, examining a miniature mode...
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Julia and Julius Jacobson at the Museum

Date: 1912
Description: Well-dressed Julia and Julius Jacobson looking at Indian artifacts at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum during their wedding trip to Madison...
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Wisconsin Centennial Celebration

Date: 02 05 1948
Description: Two grand-nieces and a grand-nephew of John Appleby, Mazomanie inventor who perfected the turn knotter for binders, pose with his framed picture in the mus...
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Cliffs of Dover Postcard

Date: 1908
Description: Front and back of a postcard sent from Agnes to William (Bill) Quinney. The front features a print of the Cliffs of Dover in pastel tones while, on the ba...
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WHA-TV Program

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Description: Doris Platt (standing) and three other people, possibly discussing the script of a program on WHA-TV. Artifacts line shelves behind the people in a country...
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McCormick Collection Filing Cabinets

Date: 1959
Description: A line of filing cabinets holding the Anita McCormick Blaine papers, not long after they arrived at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the 1950s. A portra...
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Historical Society Gets Player Piano

Date: 11 22 1959
Description: Eileen Ryan, a secretary of the Wisconsin State Historical Society, is shown looking over the player piano given to the society by Berniece LaFlash. The so...
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Paul Vanderbilt

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Description: Paul Vanderbilt works at a table in the Iconography Section at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Stacks of photographs and boxes cover the table, along wit...
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Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 04 1956
Description: Paul Vanderbilt, Curator of the Iconographic Collections (1954-1972), State Historical Society of Wisconsin, examining photographs received from the Mil...
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Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 04 1956
Description: Paul Vanderbilt, Curator of the Iconographic Collections (1954-1972), State Historical Society of Wisconsin, examining photographs received from the Mil...
Photograph

Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Text with the photograph reads: "Paul Vanderbilt, curator of the photographic collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at the opening of t...
Document

Sam Briskin "A Raisin in the Sun" Notes

Date: 05 18 1960
Description: Page one of typewritten notes by Sam Briskin on a draft of the screenplay for the film "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Sam Briskin "A Raisin in the Sun" Notes

Date: 05 18 1960
Description: Page two of typewritten notes by Sam Briskin on a draft of the screenplay for the film "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Sam Briskin "A Raisin in the Sun" Notes

Date: 05 18 1960
Description: Page three of typewritten notes by Sam Briskin on a draft of the screenplay for the film "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Sam Briskin "A Raisin in the Sun" Notes

Date: 05 18 1960
Description: Page four of typewritten notes by Sam Briskin on a draft of the screenplay for the film "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Sam Briskin "A Raisin in the Sun" Notes

Date: 05 18 1960
Description: Page five of typewritten notes by Sam Briskin on a draft of the screenplay for the film "A Raisin in the Sun."
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Arthur Kramer Notes on "A Raisin in the Sun"

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Description: Page one of typewritten notes by Arthur Kramer on the screenplay for "A Raisin in the Sun" from meetings between Kramer, David Susskind, Sam Briskin, James...

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