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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A view of the ornate Otis elevator originally installed in the Historical Society building in 1900. This picture, taken on the second floor during remodeli... |
| Date: | 01 30 1919 |
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| Description: | The library staff of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and their guests the University of Wisconsin Library staff, at the Society's seventieth anni... |
| Date: | 01 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Ruben Gold Thwaites, Iva Welsh, and Mary Foster dressed as "Box and Cox" and Mrs. Bouncer from the 1840's comedy Box and Cox. They are at a costume ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Barn on the property of Lyman Copeland Draper on West Washington Avenue. Books which formed the basis for the State Historical Library collections were kep... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Iva Welsh. She wears a pearl necklace. |
| Date: | 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Dr. Clifford L. Lord posed standing examining large bound volumes from the Cudahy papers in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Doris Platt at the WHA-TV station displaying artifacts during the broadcast of Scandinavian Backbone, part of her series of 1959 television shows. E... |
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| Description: | Doris Platt (standing) and three other people, possibly discussing the script of a program on WHA-TV. Artifacts line shelves behind the people in a country... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | The official opening of Wade House. Amid great fanfare, complete with an appearance by poet Carl Sandburg, Wade House opened to the public on June 6th, 195... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, presents the key to Wade House to Dr. William McKern, of the Wisconsin State Historical Society. The century-old stagecoach inn and... |
| Date: | 06 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Carl Sandburg posing with two of the guides at Wade house during his visit to the restored stagecoach inn for its dedication as a historic site. Speaking a... |
| Date: | 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Visitors enjoy a stagecoach ride, an attraction at Old Wade House during the August "twilight tours" of this historic site. A team of two horses stand in t... |
| Date: | 07 05 1968 |
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| Description: | Grand opening of the Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum. A stagecoach is pulled by horses from the Jung Carriage Museum at Wade House along a curved gravel dri... |
| Date: | 07 05 1968 |
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| Description: | Grand opening of the Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum. Side view of a carriage with a fringed shade, pulled by a horse, traveling in front of the museum on t... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | An advertising billboard for Old Wade House and the Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum. |
| Date: | 06 16 2001 |
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| Description: | Herbert V. Kohler, Jr. presented with an oversized wooden mallet at the grand opening of the rebuilt Herrling Sawmill. He is wearing a suit with a boutonni... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Wesley W. Jung at the Jung Carriage Museum. Mr. Jung is standing with one hand on a sleigh. On the side of the box the lettering, "J. & W. Jung Co." appear... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Wesley W. Jung at the Jung Carriage Museum. Mr. Jung is standing on the right in front of a circus wagon. Painted inside of an oval on the side is a circus... |
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