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State Board of Control Office

Date: 1893
Description: Office of the State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions in the third Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Jastrow Home

Date: 1892
Description: Dining room of the home of Professor Joseph Jastrow, 237 Langdon Street.
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Interior of Sitting Room

Date: 1898
Description: An interior view of a sitting room with a high ceiling, most likely Dankoler's. Books are stacked neatly on shelves and tables. Through an curtained archwa...
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Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 1885
Description: Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic in Washington, District of Columbia in 1885.
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Parlor in Steensland Home

Date: 1899
Description: An interior view of the Halle Steensland house at 315 North Carroll Street, showing the lavishly decorated parlor. There is a piano on the right, and a tig...
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Mrs. Steensland

Date: 1899
Description: Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be...
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Halle Steensland at Home

Date: 1899
Description: Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street.
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Furniture Store Interior

Date: 1895
Description: Interior of a furniture store, with two men posed among the rows of furniture. A group of chairs hangs from the ceiling.
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Complimentary Dinner to Hon. John D. Spooner

Date: 03 05 1891
Description: Front cover and inside of menu for a dinner honoring U.S. Senator John C. Spooner when he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims, with an oval photograph ...
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Menu for the 7th Annual Banquet of the Merchants Association

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Die cut elongated octagonal menu for the 7th annual banquet of the Merchants Association at The Plankinton. On the cover is an oval portrait of a deer with...
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Hotel Dining Room

Date: 1890
Description: Hotel dining room, probably at the Galloway House.
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Ole Bull's Residence

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of a room in Ole Bull's Madison residence, where he lived after marrying Sara Chapman Thorp in 1870. The room is furnished with chairs, a table...
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Cornelia Vilas Guild Hall in the Women's Club

Date: 02 1898
Description: Interior view of Cornelia Vilas Guild Hall in the Women's Club on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The stage is set with chairs in front of thre...
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Billiard Room at the Park Hotel

Date: 1871
Description: Six billiard tables in a large room with high ceilings at the Park Hotel on Carroll Street. Benches and chairs line the back wall, and large windows are al...
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George Brumder at Work

Date: 05 1878
Description: George Brumder, in a three-piece suit and wearing pince-nez eyeglasses, is sitting in a swivel chair at a roll top desk. His unidentified secretary is sitt...
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Music Room

Date: 1890
Description: An interior view of the music room of the George Brumder home at the corner of Wells and 10th Streets. The room has a high ceiling and is decorated in Vict...
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Living Room

Date: 1890
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...
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Parlor

Date: 1893
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...
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Living Room

Date: 1893
Description: The living room of the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. There is a fireplace on the right. An orna...
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Library

Date: 1893
Description: A view of the library in the George Brumder residence at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Avenue and 18th Street. There is a fireplace with mantel clo...

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