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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View of the Chequamegon Hotel, built by the Wisconsin Central railroad interests and opened in 1877. It faced the bay and had a long series of steps leadin... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Third Wisconsin State Capitol (the second in Madison), showing the East Washington Avenue gateway and iron fence. In reality the statues, which were meant ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of terminal station at Jackson Park; Administration Building in background. |
| Date: | 05 19 1887 |
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| Description: | View out of entrance to the National Soldiers Home. Fountain and trees framed by arch with hanging lamp. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The Milwaukee Thermo Therapae building at Fourth and Sycamore Streets. It was also known as Dr. Hanson's Thermo Water Cure. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Advance Thresher Company, 601 Williamson Street, as seen in "Madison, Wis. And It's Points Of Interest." The dealer was one of many wh... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | "Forward", the statue created by Jean Pond Miner of Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Women's Memorial at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. The statue is seen on... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Madison over rooftop and across lake with sailboats and steamers. A group of people are standing on a viewing platform on the roof in th... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, which was constructed entirely of iron and glass, as it appeared in 1878. The dome was painted white which s... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Painters working on the cornice of one of the four octagonal towers of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Also visible is the Italianate ornamentation of the iro... |
| Date: | 10 1869 |
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| Description: | The second Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction, showing the workmen and the equipment they used to hoist construction materials into place. |
| Date: | 01 1895 |
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| Description: | View from street of the residence at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Detail of the photograph of the Third Capitol showing the North Wing addition completed in 1883. Designed by D.R. Jones, the North and South additions were... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from road down wooden sidewalk which runs adjacent to an elaborate fence along a yard, behind which women stand near the front porch of a frame house ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front of picket fence, with L-shaped frame house with porch and high stone foundation. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
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