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| 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: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials ca... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | The remains of a second floor corridor in the North Wing of the Third Wisconsin State Capitol after the fire of February 27-28, 1904. This photograph docum... |
| Date: | 02 27 1904 |
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| Description: | The east wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol is surrounded by onlookers during the disastrous fire that caused severe damage. The conflagration began... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the crew that constructed the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The new East Wing is visible in the background. |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People and carriages in front of the depot-hotel Railway Hotel on West Washington Avenue. This was the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Ticket Offi... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Matthew J. Hoven with hands on hips standing in front of M.J. Hoven's Meat Market. A sign on the building reads: "Oyster Depot; Wholesale & Retail". There ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of children playing with a makeshift diving board at Brittingham Bay swimming hole. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View across Yahara River towards a group of people on the Sherman Avenue Bridge, with the old malt house in the background. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Monona Lake Assembly, The Casino. This structure, including the ice house and provision space, designed by Conover and Porter and built for $1700.00 in Jun... |
| Date: | 06 19 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of people posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch during its dedication. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Employees of the business office of the Insurance Department. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn... |
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| Description: | The lunch counter at Truax Field, formerly Madison Municipal Airport. Two men are sitting at the counter, probably airport employees, and a waitress is po... |
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