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Wisconsin State Capitol Memorial Hall

Date: 1962
Description: The G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Executive Mansion

Date: 1963
Description: Detail of the Executive Mansion through garden shrubbery. The residence is located at 99 Cambridge Road in Maple Bluff.
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Executive Mansion

Date: 1963
Description: The Executive Mansion, 99 Cambridge Road, in Maple Bluff.
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Executive Mansion

Date: 1963
Description: The front facade of the Executive Mansion, 99 Cambridge Road, Maple Bluff.
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Robert Lamp House

Date: 1966
Description: The Robert Lamp house at 22 North Butler Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1902.
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Mendota Mental Health Institute

Date: 06 28 1962
Description: Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane).
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 1-6

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Description: We've at least been able to conserve something if it's only the idea of conserving for conservation's sake
But the community interests ought to come fir...
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New Residential Construction

Date: 1960
Description: New residential construction on the outer southwest edge of Madison.
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Duplex Houses

Date: 1961
Description: Scene with duplex houses and clouds at sunset.
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Houses on Henry Street

Date: 1965
Description: View between residential houses on South Henry Street.
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Early Morning

Date: 06 1973
Description: Buildings and parking lot at Webster and North Hamilton Streets, early morning.
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Houses Downtown

Date: 1965
Description: View down sidewalk with the porches of duplex residential houses on the left in the downtown area.
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House on Capitol Square

Date: 1965
Description: View looking through porches of residential buildings near Capitol Square.
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Guffawmeter

Date: 1958
Description: A man wearing headphones is sitting behind a table with the Guffawmeter. The caption reads: "Guffawmeter constructed by Paul Vanderbilt for the State Histo...
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F. Gerald Ham Examining Papers

Date: 1964
Description: Caption reads: "F. Gerald Ham, Wisconsin State Archivist, examining papers (posed re-enactment) in preparation of a guide to labor history research materia...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 42

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Description: That morning is adrift in passing;
it cannot last the day.
Those years are anchored to each other;
there is no other way.
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 144

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Description: A house laced straight into the wiry sore of righteousness,
squared off and lonely,
tingling at the sound of ice,
the libertine who drowned.
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 45

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Description: The house was smaller than its legendary fill of righteousness
The author knelt before the scratched and wintered argument
to learn that Grace, in an...
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

Date: 
Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...

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