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: | 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: | 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. |
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: | 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... |
Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
Date: | 10 19 1911 |
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Description: | Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River... |
Date: | 09 14 1911 |
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Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers in a Wright Model B at Appleton Baseball Park. Cal Rodgers, a member of the famous Perry family, learned to fly at the Wright Flyin... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Jesse C. Brabazon of Delavan, Wisconsin in a 1911 Wright Model B, the first Wright plane designed to carry a passenger and a pilot. Previously, the passeng... |
Date: | 06 12 1913 |
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Description: | The second fatal wreck involving the Wright Model B airplane in which Calbreith Perry Rodgers had died a year earlier. This crash killed Andy Drew, friend ... |
Date: | 05 11 1913 |
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Description: | The Wright Model B airplane, in which Calbraith Perry Rodgers had crashed and died on April 3, 1912, flying once again. The plane is flying at a Lima, Ohio... |
Date: | 10 08 1912 |
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Description: | Jesse Brabazon of Delavan, Wisconsin, in a Wright Model B following an emergency landing at Cicero Field in Chicago. Inspecting the faulty propeller that c... |
Date: | 05 11 1913 |
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Description: | The 1911 Wright Model B rebuilt by Jesse Brabazon of Delavan and his partner-mechanic, Frank Shaffer. Brabazon, who is in the pilot's seat, is about to tak... |
Date: | 08 1907 |
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Description: | The dismantling of the dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol began with the removal of the 32-foot flagpole. The eagle at the top of the pole was an 18... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | The construction of the East Wing of the new Capitol is underway. This is a view of the North and South Wings and the dome of the Third Wisconsin State Cap... |
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