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| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery. |
| Date: | 06 1877 |
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| Description: | The Guppey Guard, a Wisconsin state militia unit, in formation on a street in Portage. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | 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 rep... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of legislators in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 03 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1899 Assembly Chamber photograph, showing a row of legislators at their desks. Until well into the 20th century, individual legislators had n... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | 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 ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph, showing the visitors' gallery, the oversize brackets that supported it, and the ornamentation of the gallery. As... |
| Date: | 08 18 1885 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk and his staff at the funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. Present with Rusk, 5th from the left, and i... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Madison's Pinckney Street, with the Capitol Park in the foreground and Farwell's octagon house and Lake Monona in the distance. This view has been various... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of Rochester and the Beaver Valley. Junction of the Beaver River and the Ohio River. Settlements and multiple bridges are in the background. |
| Date: | 07 1886 |
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| Description: | Intersection of 4th and Steele Streets facing east. The building in the lower right is the Knipfer building, now Algoma Mercantile. Bunting adorns the Boed... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The brick home of Judge Andrew Galbraith Miller at 174 Wisconsin Street. There are steps up to the front entrance, a fence, and a fire hydrant on the sidew... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | First building of the 27th Street plant. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Exterior of west facade of original Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Ladies Ideal Band, in uniform and holding their instruments which include drums and various brass ins... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by May Conniff Frost showing the tugboat Record of the Inman Line pulling a lake schooner through rough waters into Superio... |
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