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Park Hotel

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the Second Empire style Park Hotel at the corner of South Carroll and West Main Streets. There are horse-drawn carriages, pedestrians, and a smal...
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Bicyclist on Monona Avenue

Date: 1910
Description: A woman crosses Monona Avenue as a man on a bicycle rides by. The large, Second Empire style Avenue Hotel, with two-story porch, is on the left; the GAR ha...
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Historical Society

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now Wisconsin Historical Society) building. Awnings shade some of the first and second story wi...
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House with Widow's Walk

Date: 1900
Description: The A. D. Frederickson house at 504 E. Gorham Street. A two- and one-half story house with both Queen Anne and Colonial Revival features. It is located on ...
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Engineering Building

Date: 1905
Description: View across Bascom Hill of the old engineering building at 1000 Bascom Mall. The building now houses the School of Education.
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Bascom Hall

Date: 1905
Description: Main Hall, later renamed Bascom Hall, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The dome was destroyed in a fire in 1916. Later additions made the bui...
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Charles Solar Olson

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Solar Olson, in uniform, and a woman. He was a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following...
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International Students Attend the University of Wisconsin

Date: 07 27 1954
Description: International students attend the University of Wisconsin. Pictured is Abed Jandali from Homs, Syria, the president of the International Club who is studyi...
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Fred M. Schlimgen Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Fred M. Schlimgen of Madison, Wisconsin, designer and builder of memorial markers, with a landscape of classical buildings, a cloud-filled sk...
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Inauguration Ceremony

Date: 01 1985
Description: Inauguration ceremony in which Dwight York was sworn into the Assembly.
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Richard Ely and Henry Taylor

Date: 1919
Description: Richard T. Ely and Henry C. Taylor stand together on the front steps of Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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Otis Elevator

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view from stairway of the ornate Otis elevator in the Wisconsin Historical Society building. This elevator was installed as original equipment in ...
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Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall

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Description: View of Lincoln Monument in front of Bascom Hall.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters Building

Date: 1971
Description: View of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin headquarters building from across Library Mall. A woman and child are sitting on the edge of the William ...
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Government Reorganization

Date: 1968
Description: David R. Obey, then a Wisconsin assemblyman, testifying in the Capitol in behalf of the reorganization of state government proposed by the Kellett Commissi...
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Madison West High School Mother-Daughter Night

Date: 04 15 1959
Description: Home economics students at Madison West High School wear clothing made at a Mother-Daughter Night. Left to right are: Jane LaCourt, Christine Anderson, Mau...
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Assembly Chamber

Date: 1880
Description: Assembly Chambers in the second State Capitol. Note the gas lamps.
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Portrait Gallery

Date: 1903
Description: Portrait gallery with paintings in the museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. On the floor is displayed a sculpture of a badger with the word...
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Rigadoon Room Luncheon Menu

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Description: Luncheon menu from the Rigadoon Room in the Edgewater Hotel, with an illustration of twin gargoyle figures that stood on either side of a curtained doorway...
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Rigadoon Room Luncheon Menu

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Description: Luncheon menu from the Rigadoon Room in the Edgewater Hotel, with a gargoyle figure against a background of tied-back drapery, and spot illustrations of th...

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