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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
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| Description: | Graphic depiction of the MG&E plant showing stacks releasing smoke into the air. Text reads "FIGHT! the MADISON GAS & ELECTRIC rate increase". |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor W.W. Daniels, University of Wisconsin geologist. Daniels worked as one of Increase Lapham's assistants during the Wis... |
| Date: | 10 15 1965 |
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| Description: | Members are shown playing touch football on the lawn at the Theta Chi fraternity. The 32 fraternities pledged 507 new members for the fall semester, a 23% ... |
| Date: | 03 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Public Service Commission members are sitting around a long table before papers, taking up a proposal for a rate increase for the Madison Bus Company. A fe... |
| Date: | 06 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the board of directors of the Madison Improvement Corporation that unwrapped plans to increase the industrial potential of the Madison metropoli... |
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| Martha Bergland is a WHS Press author and a member of the Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau. |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Gov. Gaylord Nelson delivering a speech at a podium asking the state's lawmakers to help create a Wisconsin Economic Resources Commission to ... |
| Date: | 08 19 1954 |
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| Description: | View of a worker laying concrete blocks to close off one of the three front entrances to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building. A... |
| Date: | 03 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire stands at a podium to address an overflow crowd of about 600 federal employees in the second congressional district at the wage in... |
| Date: | 12 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Three men examine an electric organ placed upon a wheeled platform. The caption states, a new portable chord organ for patients at Mendota State Hospital a... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Bus poster with a stylized image of a person and the text: "Military Spending Costs Madison Jobs! Vote Yes April, 3. Authorized and Paid for by the Peace a... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across Park Street of Science Hall at the base of Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. |
| Date: | 01 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Ralph Runge, Local #1 Chairman of the WSDA membership committee, presenting the President Zander Membership Cup to Jay D. Ferguson, Chairman of the winning... |
| Date: | 10 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Sara (Mrs. Joseph) Mallon (Menominee) of Milwaukee, wearing a sash stands between two American flags behind a memorial that reads, "Indian Mounds: One of s... |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Badger State Shoe Company |
| Reference Number: | 89000232 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Madison Gas and Electric Company Powerhouse |
| Reference Number: | 02001126 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Lapham School |
| Reference Number: | 78264 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Randall School |
| Reference Number: | 94722 |
| Community: | Madison |
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| County: | Dane |
| Historic Name: | Dr. Kenneth M. and Beverly Sachtjen House |
| Reference Number: | 228208 |
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