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Gaylord Nelson With Trumpet

Date: 04 07 1931
Description: Gaylord Nelson during his high school years stands in front of a house playing the trumpet.
Photograph

Wendell Willkie Speaking in Richland Center

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie giving a campaign speech in 1944 in the Richland Center High School gymnasium. There is a WIBU microphone with a sign for Wisconsin Network...
Historical Object

Mourning Badge with Grant Image

Date: 07 23 1885
Description: Mourning Badge with the image of Ulysses S. Grant.
Photograph

Pioneer Monument

Date: 1930
Description: View of the pioneer monument.
Photograph

Emigranten Office

Date: 1920
Description: The Emigranten Office at King and Webster Streets. The Emigranten was published here in the 1850s and 1860s.
Photograph

Wisconsin Highway Sign

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin State Highway sign along STH 11 near Galesville, one of a whole new vocabulary of signage created for automobile traffic. The inverted triangle w...
Photograph

Civil War Shell

Date: 1931
Description: A shell of the Civil War period, recovered from the Mississippi River near Vicksburg, Mississippi, and presented to the First Capitol State Park by the GAR...
Photograph

Washington Yates Selleck

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Washington Yates Selleck was Wisconsin's military agent in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War. In this capacity...
Photograph

Fourth Sacred Heart Church

Date: 1935
Description: The Fourth Sacred Heart Church, Polish Catholic, built in 1934. The church was built across the road from the site of the Second and Third Sacred Heart Chu...
Photograph

Hospital Hallway

Date: 1930
Description: View of a hallway in the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital. There is a man sitting at the end of the hall under the window.
Photograph

Henry Weber

Date: 1902
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Henry Weber, wearing a suit jacket, vest, and tie.
Photograph

Charles W. Gulliford

Date: 10 1861
Description: Three-Quarter length portrait of Charles W. Gulliford, Company B, 12th Wisconsin Infantry, with musket. Photograph was taken at Camp Randall.
Photograph

Photo Playhouse

Date: 
Description: Tintype of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison, (in the window), with her friend Celia Gibson posing in front of a painted backdrop.
Print

Henry P. Andrae

Date: 1898
Description: Head and shoulders profile portrait of Henry Andrae.
Photograph

50th Anniversary Portrait of I.P. and Mary Rumsey

Date: 1920
Description: Wearing formal attire, Captain I.P. Rumsey and Mary Axtell Rumsey are standing together by a window. Caption reads: "50th Anniversary."
Photograph

Captain George H. Otis

Date: 
Description: Vignetted head and shoulders civil war portrait of George Otis.
Photograph

Mary Livingston Griggs on Snowy Boardwalk

Date: 1926
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs is standing on the birch-lined boardwalk leading to the Forest Lodge boathouse. Mary is wearing a wool dress, coat and leather boots...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Edward Anderson Alderman

Date: 1905
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edward Anderson Alderman, the first President of the University of Virginia. He was an education reformer for the university, an...

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