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| Description: | Exterior of Saint Paul's Lutheran Church. The church features a cross-topped steeple, a large stained glass window, and a belfry on its left side. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | View looking uphill toward the back of Ingraham Hall at Ripon College. The primary material used is brick, and the foundation and basement are stone. The b... |
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| Description: | Front view of the Catholic Church. The building features a stairway leading to an arched entrance, a rose window, and a decorative steeple with a clock and... |
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| Description: | View of a Lutheran Church featuring a large clock tower and two steeples, rose and arched windows, and an arched entrance with stairs leading up to it. An... |
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| Description: | An automobile parks along a road running past a courthouse. The building features stairs leading up to the front entrance, a clock tower topped by a cupol... |
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| Description: | A cannon and statue on a lawn next to a two-story brick building. The building features a large clock tower topped by a cupola, rectangular windows, and de... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View toward the brick and stone facade of a neoclassical-style public library on a corner. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across intersection toward the library on the left, and houses behind a tree-lined sidewalk on the right. |
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| Description: | Interior of the reception room at Saint Clara Academy. Founded by Father Samuel Mazzuchelli and built in 1852, the academy's reception room features religi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the State Capitol looking west in Madison, Wisconsin. A corner of the Capitol Square and the Capitol Lawn are in the foreground. Automobi... |
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| Description: | A walkway surrounded by a lawn and trees leads to the state Capitol building. The building features a large dome with Wisconsin on top, columns, a detailed... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the state Capitol building looking west. The building features columns, a dome topped by the statue Wisconsin, and multiple windows. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A view of the vine-covered facade and side of North Hall at the State Normal School. Stone work decorates the top of the building and a flag flies from the... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Bertha Tainter Hall, a building at the Stout Institute (now the University of Wisconsin-Stout), as seen from across a lawn. The Victorian... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial, a Wisconsin State historic site built in 1889. The design was intended to reflect the Richardsonian Romanesque... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the United States Post Office. A woman exits the main doors of the stone building. Stairs lead from a columned facade to the sidewalk past lamp... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A view of Main Hall at St. Norbert College. Turrets and stone decor accent the brick building and a cannon surrounded by shrubbery sits on the lawn. |
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| Description: | A view of the interior of the assembly room at the State Normal School, looking toward the front of the room. Long rows of desks fill the room. Above the... |
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| Description: | View of Kettle Island as seen from Coolidge Point. A residence stands among trees on Coolidge Point. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a center oval-framed image of a woman and a cherub leaning on an ornamental stone wall. A column with an ornate top is to the rig... |
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