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Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room

Date: 1901
Description: Library Reading Room as completed in 1901, showing skylights and ceiling fixtures, library tables and lights, and many University of Wisconsin students at ...
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SHSW Library Coffered Ceiling Detail

Date: 1901
Description: Close-up of the coffered ceiling detail in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library Reading Room, also showing the pendant light fixtures.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Periodical Reading Room

Date: 1901
Description: SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin studen...
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SHSW Visitors Gallery

Date: 1901
Description: Visitors Gallery and art book collection on the third floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society Building. This image appears on page 91 of the Historical ...
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Elevated View from Marquette College

Date: 1901
Description: Elevated view southeast from Marquette College. Homes along street in the foreground with a horse-drawn carriage. Church steeples can be seen in the dista...
Photograph

Wisconsin Historical Society Library Catalog

Date: 1901
Description: Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society's library with a view of the card catalogs.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Stairway

Date: 1901
Description: Interior of the Wisconsin Historical Society showing stairway.
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Music Hall

Date: 1901
Description: View from Park Street of Music Hall and Library on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Music Hall

Date: 1901
Description: View across Bascom Hill of Music Hall and Library on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Construction of Schuette Bros. Store

Date: 1901
Description: Construction crew raising a brick building. The structure is entirely surrounded by scaffolding. A large stone piece is being hoisted into place while a wo...
Historical Object

Album Page with Violets

Date: 1901
Description: An album page decorated with hand-painted yellow violets features interior and exterior photographic views of the Frank B. Fargo house. At top left, a phot...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital

Date: 1901
Description: View of the east facade of the three-story brick hospital with its Richardsonian Romanesque arched stone entrance and Roman Catholic cross-topped turrets. ...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Main Vestibule

Date: 1901
Description: View inside the main entrance looking through the first floor corridor into a furnished room. A stained glass window with a floral motif is above the vesti...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Parlor

Date: 1901
Description: Elements of Victorian design and decoration are seen in the main floor parlor. Ribbon and floral wreathing draws attention to the upper walls and high ceil...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Chapel

Date: 1901
Description: Gothic arches frame the intricately designed and decorated altar of the Sacred Heart chapel. Across the front of the high altar, from left to right, are st...
Photograph

Ethnology Building

Date: 1901
Description: Well-dressed men and women are strolling the wet pavement at the Pan American Exposition in front of the Ethnology Building. Some people are standing on th...
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Milwaukee Rooftops

Date: 1901
Description: An elevated view, possibly in the area of 18th Street and Grand (now Wisconsin) Avenue, over the roofs of large homes. There is a large structure at left w...

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