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Capitol Interior (Third) — Turner Seminar in Historical Society Alcove

Date: 1893
Description: Frederick Jackson Turner with his History Seminar in an alcove of the Historical Society rooms in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, about 1893-1894. Back ...
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Increase Lapham Examining a Meteorite

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin...
Painting

Increase Allen Lapham

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Increase Allen Lapham.
Painting

Nathaniel P. Tallmadge

Date: 1833
Description: "Tallmadge, Nathaniel Pitcher (Feb. 8, 1795-Nov. 2, 1864), lawyer, politician, U.S. Senator from N.Y., territorial governor of Wisconsin, b. Chatham, N.Y. ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office

Date: 1897
Description: Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 03 15 1899
Description: Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail

Date: 1899
Description: Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ...
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The Earliest Portrait of Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1848
Description: Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln.
Print

James Monroe

Date: 1861
Description: Portrait engraving of James Monroe from a painting by Alonzo Chappel.
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Family posed in front of Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: A husband and wife are posed with three sons, an infant in a baby carriage, and a Dalmatian dog, in front of a frame house with a stone foundation, shutter...
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Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: The Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen (1825-1904), his wife Cathinka Doderlein Ottesen, their family and visitors are posing in a yard around a table set for cof...
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P. Gunhouse Family Sitting in front of House

Date: 1874
Description: The P. Gunhouse family is posed around a table in their yard. The baby sits in a high chair and the table is covered with books and flowers. The L-shaped f...
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Ole Wettlesen Family

Date: 1874
Description: The Ole Wettlesen family poses in the yard in front of a picket fence with women knitting. Two standing men appear to be examining an unfolded map. The fra...
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Family in Yard by Picket Fence

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard in front of picket fence, with a farm house and a building among trees in the background. The family is gathered around a table, and a young...
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Family at Side of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is posing at the side of a house. A man and boy are holding rifles, and a dog is lying on the ground between the. There is a baby sitting in a hig...
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Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
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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Family and Baby in Grass

Date: 1874
Description: Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil...
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William Bullock Family

Date: 1872
Description: Group portrait of the William Bullock family, a group of eleven adults and children in front of an ivy covered wall.
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Family Outside of Stone House

Date: 1876
Description: Family of sixe seated in front of large stone house that has glass trim around the centrally placed door. Lightning rods are on the two chimneys. A man on ...
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Fashionable Family outside Home

Date: 1870
Description: Extended family of fourteen posed in their best clothes outside a home. Older woman seated in rocking chair, with men, women, girls, boy and baby.

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