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Wisconsin State Capitol Elevators

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Description: Second and third floor elevators in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Central High School Entrance

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: View of the Central High School entrance arch at 214 Wisconsin Avenue. Ivy is growing around the entrance, and is obscuring the carved letters of "High Sch...
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Eastwood Theatre Main Foyer

Date: 01 08 1930
Description: View of foyer from west end; Eastwood theatre, located at 2090 Atwood Avenue. On the right is a staircase and newel post with a statue of Mercury. Text on ...
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Calvary Lutheran University Church Doorway

Date: 05 30 1929
Description: Calvary Lutheran University Church interior doorway, 713 State Street.
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Ashland County Jail

Date: 1890
Description: Text on front reads: "Ashland County Jail, Ashland, Wis." and "Conover & Porter, Architects." A young boy standing on the steps near the open door of the a...
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First National Bank

Date: 05 14 1938
Description: Exterior doorway of the First National Bank.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Elevator

Date: 1900
Description: The elevator in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin photographed shortly after the completion of the building in 1900. The elevator is stopped on the...
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Entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden

Date: 07 03 1886
Description: The ornate entrance to the Schlitz Palm Garden. Located on N. 3rd Street, south of W. Wisconsin Avenue, the Schlitz Palm Garden opened on July 3, 1886 and ...
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State Fair Grounds

Date: 1945
Description: Fruits, Farm Crops building. A man in a trench coat stands in a doorway.
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Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater

Date: 2009
Description: Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater's carved stone front entrance.
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Stoughton Opera House

Date: 2009
Description: Exterior view of Stoughton Opera House and City Hall entrance.
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Vietnamese Teacher

Date: 12 14 1951
Description: Vu Thi Yen stands in the doorway at Edgewood College while wearing a dress from her native country of Vietnam. She has come to the U.S. to study to become ...
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Fort Sumter

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Description: Interior view of Fort Sumter. Two open doors show a staircase in the distance, and two dates, "1776" and "1917" are written on the wall. Construction on ...
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Library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines

Date: 1910
Description: Interior of the library at the School of the Brown County Ursulines, established by the Ursuline Sisters, founded in 1845. Bookshelves and windows line th...
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Montauk Manor

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Description: Guests walk toward the entrance of Montauk Manner and automobiles are parked in front of the building. The English Tudor-style hotel opened in 1927.
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Westward-Ho Hotel Native American Doorman

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Description: A Native American doorman stands at the street entrance of the Westward-Ho Hotel. View features an archway entrance, an automobile, and a woman standing to...
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Catholic Church in Jefferson, Wisconsin

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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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Lutheran Church in Jefferson, Wisconsin

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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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Jefferson High School

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Description: Exterior view of a high school taken from across the lawn. The three-story brick building features arch and circular windows, an arch entrance, trees, and ...
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Congregational Church

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Description: Exterior view of the Congregational Church. The building features two decorative steeples, arched windows, and stairs leading up to the entrance of the ch...

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