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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Old Abe, the eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Infantry, posed on a cannon with the third Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. From 1864 until his de... |
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| Description: | Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Ellsworth Block on North Pinckney Street between East Washington and East Mifflin Streets as seen from the Capitol Park. Storefronts include the Dry Goods ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol dome toward West Washington Avenue. The Park Hotel is on the left. The four church steeples that can be iden... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin State Capitol looking south. Lake Monona is to the left, and West Washington Avenue is on the right. The Dane County Courthouse on ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the exterior of the Park Hotel at Carroll and Main Streets. There is a church building in the background on the left. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared during the early 1870s. Close scrutiny of the entrance (whether it is the north or south entrance cannot b... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | The Third Wisconsin State Capitol before the completion of the dome. After all four wings of the Third Capitol were completed, the second Capitol was demo... |
| Date: | 07 1914 |
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| Description: | Starting to raise "Wisconsin" statue onto the dome of the Wisconsin State Capitol (the fourth State Capitol, the third in Madison, 1906 - ). The gilded bro... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol (fourth capitol, third in Madison) under construction. View from South Hamilton Street. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Capitol (the fourth State Capitol, the third in Madison, 1906 - ) dome under construction. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Carvers at work on the Karl Bitter sculpture for the fourth Wisconsin State Capitol (third in Madison). Between 1911 and 1913, a group of stone cutters (ma... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View from the top of the Wisconsin State Capitol looking east down King Street toward Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | South Pinckney Street between East Washington Avenue (left) and King Street (right). On the right is the Marquette neighborhood. The large structure at the... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona with a tree, pier and boat in the foreground. |
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| Description: | A few typical Chippewa River log marks, including bark marks and end stamps. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | The corner of Main and Pinckney Streets with the Tenney building. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | A balloon about to ascend in Minneapolis. John Schwister, who later built the Minnesota-Badger airplane, is in the front of the gondola, with his back to t... |
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