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Fire Company

Date: 1857
Description: A lithographic portrait by Louis Kurz (1833-1921) of Madison Fire Engine Company #2 posed with a hand pumper and hose cart in front of the design of the ne...
Photograph

Fire at the Wisconsin State Capitol (Third)

Date: 02 27 1904
Description: Elevated view of the third Wisconsin State Capitol ablaze.
Print

Fauerbach's Brewery Sign

Date: 1884
Description: A sign for Fauerbach's Brewery depicting a young woman and the brewery.
Photograph

Aerial View of the Madison Isthmus

Date: 05 09 1908
Description: Kite aerial panoramic photograph of the central business district. In the distance is Lake Mendota. The fire damaged Wisconsin State Capitol is in the cent...
Photograph

Capitol Dome Construction Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of the crew that constructed the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The new East Wing is visible in the background.
Photograph

The Wisconsin State Assembly in Session

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery.
Drawing

Capitol (Third) Rotunda Section

Date: 1857
Description: Section drawing of the rotunda of the third Wisconsin State Capitol (second in Madison) by Stephen V. Shipman. August Kutzbock and Samuel H. Donnel were th...
Print

Iceboating at Madison, Wisconsin

Date: 03 09 1878
Description: Illustration by N.A. Greenback of ice-skaters and iceboats featuring the new Poughkeepsie design of pivoting runners. A key at the bottom of the image iden...
Drawing

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Chamber Plan

Date: 1860
Description: Floor plan and seating chart for the Assembly for their first meeting in the East Wing of new Wisconsin State Capitol building. After the completion of th...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate

Date: 1899
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...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Chamber

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: Elevated view of legislators in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 03 15 1899
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 ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 02 15 1899
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...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail

Date: 1899
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 ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail

Date: 1899
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 ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph, showing the visitors' gallery, the oversize brackets that supported it, and the ornamentation of the gallery. As...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Supreme Court Detail

Date: 1903
Description: Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker...
Photograph

Fire Company

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait of the Madison Fire Department, consisting of 17 individual oval portraits and the station on Webster Street.
Photograph

Farwell's Madison Mills

Date: 
Description: Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota.

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