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| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol fire of February 26-27, 1904 from East Main Street at about 4:00 a.m. The East and West wings were destroyed, as was mu... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Governor Phillip La Follette addressing the Legislature. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The Parlor from the Assembly Hall in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber, including the mural of Edwin Blashfield. The mural depicts Wisconsin's past, present and future and set the tone ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Construction of the north wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen stand atop and in front of the remnants of the last remaining wing, the North Wing, of the third Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen demolishing the North Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Because the North Wing escaped damage during the fire in 1904, the North Wing cont... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the west wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol building. A view of the fourth capitol with snow flocked trees and snow-covered lawn and side... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Architect's design for the Wisconsin Capitol Competition, ground floor plan and block plan of park, George B. Post & Sons. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Company I, 7th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, at Upton's Hill near Germantown, Virginia. The 7th was one of three Wisconsin regiments that was part... |
| Date: | 11 1883 |
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| Description: | The ruins of the unfinished South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol after its collapse while still under construction. |
| Date: | 11 1883 |
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| Description: | View of the third Wisconsin State Capitol showing the ruins of the South Wing addition after it collapsed during construction. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing on the partially demolished dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, together with the hoist used for removing salvaged materials. This d... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Lumbermen in their bunk house at Ole Emerson's lumber camp. Several of them have pipes in their mouths and their socks are hanging to dry. |
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| Description: | View up logging railroad tracks running through the woods. |
| Date: | 07 18 1862 |
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| Description: | Officers of the Second Wisconsin Infantry posed in front of a tent. They are, from left to right, Quartermaster J.D. Ruggles, Dr. A.J. Ward, Major J.S. All... |
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| Description: | The steamboat Canada at dock; cargo on lower deck, passengers on upper deck, and crowd waiting on the dock. The Canada was built in 1858, dis... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central Railway locomotive no. 221, the first "big engine" on the Wisconsin Central. Built by the Brooks Locomotive Works in 1898, and later ren... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., striking an emphatic pose with his fist raised over his hand. This photograph was probably taken for publicity purposes during ... |
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