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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail
February 15, 1899
Detail of the 1899 Assembly Chamber photograph, showing a row of legislators at their desks. Until well into the 20th century, individual legislators had neither offices nor staff, and the result w...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail
1899
Detail of the 1899 Senate photograph, showing details such as the president's chair (much more ornamented than the Assembly Speaker's chair) and desk with its faux painted ornamentation, window tri...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate
1899
The only known visual documentation of the Senate Chamber in the third Wisconsin Capitol. It was probably more colorful than it appears here. In 1869 a reporter described the Senate walls as stippl...
Assembly Chamber
February 4, 1945
Interior view of the Assembly Chamber at the Wisconsin State Capitol, with seating for legislators, featuring the Edward Blashfield mural: "The State of Wisconsin, its Past, Present, and Future."
The Wisconsin State Assembly in Session
February 15, 1899
The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery.
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assemblyman
1909
Otto Onstad, a newly elected assemblyman from Dane County, in the newly constructed Assembly Chamber of the present Wisconsin State Capitol. He is sitting at a row of desks from the third Wisconsin...
