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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Rooms of the Historical Society
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The Genealogical Alcove in the Historical Society's quarters in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Although the Society had only moved into these rooms in 1883, it is clear that conditions were already very crowded by the time this picture was taken. In 1900 the Society was able to move to its own, more spacious building on State Street.
1898
Foster, Mary N.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Rooms of the Historical Society
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A two-story gallery of the Historical Society in the Wisconsin State Capitol, with captured Confederate army flags on display. This photograph was taken in the old South Wing rooms into which the S...
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1880
Librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol from 1866 until 1883. In addition to this r...
