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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.
Print

Fairgrounds at Milwaukee

Date: 1859
Description: Elevated view of the fairgrounds in Milwaukee, the year when Abraham Lincoln spoke. The fairgrounds were located at the Brockway Grounds near Twelfth and S...
Photograph

Weaver Barn

Date: 1920
Description: View of the Weaver barn in which the first Episcopal church services were held between about 1842 - 1845.
Photograph

Indian School

Date: 1890
Description: Indian School in Shawano.
Painting

Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 03 16 1916
Description: Benjamin Walker Castle, 900 block East Gorham Street, ca. 1862-1893.
Print

Milwaukee County Court House

Date: 1870
Description: Slightly elevated view at an angle towards the left and front of the courthouse. A large statue is on top of the main dome. The area around the courthouse ...
Photograph

Kilbourn Park Reservoir

Date: 1900
Description: Reservoir, looking South, with pedestrians walking along the edge of the empty reservoir. A team of horses with a cart or wagon can also be seen in the bac...
Photograph

Kilbourn Park Reservoir

Date: 1900
Description: Looking down into the reservoir partially filled with water. A group of men stand at various levels; some with the carriage and horses at top, four on a le...
Photograph

Libourn Park Reservoir

Date: 1900
Description: Several men are standing on top of a square ledge over the reservoir. Other men are working in the reservoir. On the right is a wooden walkway.
Photograph

Miller House

Date: 1875
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...
Drawing

Milwaukee Public Library and Museum Plan

Date: 1898
Description: Design for the plan of the first and second floors, accepted through a competition. The museum space is at the far left.
Photograph

Red Star Yeast & Products Co.

Date: 1882
Description: First building of the 27th Street plant.
Print

St. John's Cathedral

Date: 1923
Description: Etching of the church through the park with a fountain on the left.
Photograph

Bascom Hall

Date: 1890
Description: Exterior of west facade of original Bascom Hall (formerly Main Hall) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
Poster

New York Central Lines Chicago Poster

Date: 1935
Description: An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the city of Chicago. Featuring the artist Leslie Ragan, the poster depicts the buildin...
Poster

New York Central Lines New England Poster

Date: 1947
Description: An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the area of New England, deemed "America's Historic Summerland" in the poster. Featurin...
Poster

New York Central Lines Grand Central Station Poster

Date: 1928
Description: An original lithograph promoting New York Central Lines railway and the Grand Central Station in New York City, also described as "The Gateway to a Contine...

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