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The Evening Wisconsin Building

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior of building from across the street. Four stories tall with a small section of peaked and decorated roof at the corner.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Demolition

Date: 08 09 1906
Description: Demolition of the semi-circular West Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. In this picture the upper stories are gone, but behind the scaffolding the...
Photograph

Portrait of Ray Palmer

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Description: Editor of Amazing Stories. Photographed in the waiting room of the offices in Chicago for the scrapbooks. Gauer thinks this really improved his self...
Photograph

Lodi Canning Company

Date: 1925
Description: View down hill of the exterior of the Lodi Canning Company. The building features two stories and a large chimney.
Photograph

Bertha Tainter Annex

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Description: View of the Bertha Tainter Annex, a former women's dormitory at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. The building features a three stories with a porch or ba...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Wisconsin Pavilion News

Date: 04 1964
Description: Front page of a publication promoting the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The page features stories about the pavilion, an architectu...
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View of Blanchardville

Date: 1913
Description: View of the village during the winter. There are many homes, shops, several churches and open land. Many of the buildings are two stories high.
Postcard

High School

Date: 08 17 1914
Description: Colorized photographic postcard view of the exterior of the high school, which has two-stories, and is surrounded by a lawn. A tree is obscuring the facad...
Photograph

Fess Hotel Main Entrance and Facade

Date: 1958
Description: Exterior view of the upper stories and the roof edge above the entrance to the Fess Hotel. There is a partial view of the sign above the entrance, and a wi...
Postcard

Watertown, A City of Stories

Date: 1995
Description: Text on front reads: "Watertown. Willkommen in Watertown. A City of Stories. Watertown, Wisconsin." On reverse: "Front: Watertown, Wisconsin is home to a g...
Photograph

High School in Wakefield Michigan

Date: 1935
Description: View of the Wakefield high school, a large brick building. Sections of the building are three stories high. There are some shrubs and small trees on the sc...
Photograph

Woman with Book of Madison Men and Women in Service

Date: 04 07 1945
Description: Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t...
Postcard

Wilner Building

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Description: Elevated view of the Wilner Building, with six stories of commercial space. A clothing store is on the ground floor, and Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) and Dome

Date: 1878
Description: The Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared after the completion of the dome in 1869. At that time only the dome and the upper stories can be seen above the...
Photograph

Home of the Aged

Date: 1900
Description: Located at Wells Street and 20th Street. Building is five stories high with several chimneys and a tower with a cross on the roof in the center of the buil...
Photograph

Public School

Date: 1929
Description: Exterior view of the public school. The school building features two stories, a bell tower, and a porch. A car is parked by the entrance. There is a swing ...
Postcard

High School

Date: 1909
Description: Hand-colored postcard of the high school obscured by trees. The red brick building has two-stories with a bell tower. Caption reads: "High School, Elroy, W...
Postcard

State Bank, Centuria

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Description: Exterior view from street of the State Bank with a corner entrance. The brick building has two-stories, with a set of wooden stairs on one side leading up ...
Print

Doomed Demons

Date: 1935
Description: "Doomed Demons" by Eustace L. Adams, part of the Air Combat Stories for Boys series published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1932 and 1946. The cover art is b...
Photograph

Resort Cottages

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Description: A row of resort cottages as seen through trees in a wooded area. The buildings each have two stories and a gabled roof. The middle structure is a church, a...

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