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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The Historical Society's early library and painting collections on display in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken about 1880 befor... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The interior of the Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street, featuring good views of Victorian furniture, carpeting, lamps (including a crystal chande... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The ornate interior of the Lucius Fairchild house at 302 South Wisconsin Avenue (renamed Monona Avenue in 1877). Built by Lucius' father Jairus Fairchild i... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | A view of the student library and music room at Strayer Business College. Desks, chairs, and small bookcases with glass doors stand on patterned carpeting ... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Emma Seipp, third from left in second row, poses with eight other young women against a carved studio prop and painted backdrop. Two of the other women, Em... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length formal portrait of Virginia Dousman. She is wearing a light-colored, off-the-shoulder dress, with straps. Her hands are clasped. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page features a photograph of Stuart Fargo at age two years. He is wearing a nightgown and is barefoot. There is a wicker chair on the le... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Adda Howie wearing a formal gown, gloves, and a wig. She is holding a feathered hand ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Ojibwa Chiefs from Bad River, Lac Courte Oreilles, and Lac du Flambeau, in Washington, D.C. The reason they were there is in dispute. Rec... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A view of the southwest corner of the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and Wells Streets. An ornate Victorian etagere stands b... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the parlor (foreground) and music room of the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. Both room... |
| Date: | 07 1899 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Alfred (left) and Jeannette (right) Holt having a tea party. Both children are wearing dresses. A miniatu... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Lucy Rumsey is sitting with her concert harp in a home setting. She appears ready to play. There are arched doorways, a chandelier, and a fireplace in the ... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Frank Cramer, in costume as Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna. |
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