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Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall

Date: 05 25 1962
Description: A general view of the "War museum," originally in the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), Civil War Memorial hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State...
Photograph

G.A.R. Memorial Hall

Date: 1962
Description: Children and adults gather around a showcase in the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Sculpture of George Washington

Date: 1962
Description: A bust of George Washington in the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War memorial hall on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was ...
Photograph

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).
Photograph

Cafe Interior

Date: 04 20 1963
Description: Interior of Bush's Cafe, with artificial greenery, a clock, and two water pots above the lunch counter.
Photograph

Treasure City Interior

Date: 05 25 1963
Description: An interior view of Treasure City, a souvenir shop on a highway which travels north from Chicago, Illinois. Nets of sea shells, displays of jewelery, and m...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 7-11

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Description: I had to know the point to which the path was tracked
and when the definition would cease to be my own
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 19-32

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Description: Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk,
unkind to wake the dreamer
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 47-54

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Description: The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west.
But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 55-61

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Description: Way back in the soft center of hard times
did not their resistance to change in the sentiment
make some sense

What could take the place of the...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 79-84

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Description: A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day
devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets
wore them thin into retirement
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 91-96

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Description: The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements
as there are egos to reckon with
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 97-102

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Description: The measure of solitude fades in the ripples
and there are more prizes than there are fish
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 103-109

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Description: The style of reachings, temporal or spiritual, for transformation of the earth.

The chapel of Rockford Female Seminary, later Rockford College, 1889-1892...

Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 110-115

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Description: I'll show you all the imported graces
and you shall see New Fontainebleau
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 116-123

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Description: Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger
except the possible over-minding of their own manners
or being out-voted by Activists
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 124-131

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Description: Sunday was the day when, to a stranger,
almost nothing happened. But to us
it was the best day of all

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