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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Wisconsin State Capitol, which is the fourth capitol built in 1906-1917, featuring outdoor stairway. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the first Wisconsin Territorial Capitol, which was rented by the Legislature who met there for 46 days in 1836. The building was restored in 19... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Wisconsin State Capitol Executive Chamber. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior of Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda at entrances of the South and West galleries. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the third Wisconsin State Capitol built in Madison in 1906-1917. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of the east gallery of the Wisconsin State Capitol. By 1911, the commission learned that the quarry that supplied the red granite for the piers on... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | The Senate Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol in a quiet moment. Although the senate met in its new chamber in January 1913, much of the marble work on... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Office of the State Board of Control, Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The groundbreaking ceremony for the new airport hangar at Wausau. Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, who can be seen on the right, (elevated above the crowd and w... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Belle Case La Follette by Harris & Ewing used in printed piece. The quote by Robert M. La Follette, Sr., beneath the photogr... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Belle Case La Follette taken shortly before his death. |
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| Description: | Engraving of portraits of Civil War Union Army generals, clockwise from the top, P.H. Sheridan, D.D. Porter, W.S. Hancock, O.O. Howard, George G. Meade, W.... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | A composite of Civil War Confederate Commanders, this is one of the first known examples of a composite photograph and of the use of photography in adverti... |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis, center, surrounded by, clockwise from the top: Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, A.P. Hill, J.E.B. Stuart, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. John... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. when he became governor of Wisconsin. This original of this item is a postcard that was probably used for campaign p... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., about the time he founded "La Follette's Magazine." |
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