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Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol building.
Drawing

Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 1870
Description: Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893, 900 block East Gorham Street. There are two deer are the left near trees, and two people are on horseback near the front...
Photograph

Poppy Day Sale Participants

Date: 05 23 1944
Description: Mayor Halsey Kraege buys the first poppy from Mrs. John Coyne, Veterans of Foreign Wars Poppy Day sale chairman of the VFW Auxiliary. Left to right: Joseph...
Photograph

Ella Bennett Bresee

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Ella Bennett Bresee, a member of one of Madison's oldest families, has decorated the graves of American war veterans for 70 years or more. She is placing a...
Photograph

Mendota Yacht Club

Date: 1913
Description: Mendota Yacht Club, later the site of James Madison Park. A mast with flags is standing outside of the club near the water.
Photograph

Mendota Yacht Club

Date: 1915
Description: Mendota Yacht Club, later the site of James Madison Park.
Postcard

Methodist Hospital

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Methodist Hospital. A lake is in the background. Caption reads: "The Methodist Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin".
Photograph

Manchester's, Inc., Employees Sell War Bonds

Date: 06 23 1944
Description: Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ...
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Nine Madison Woman's Club members posing in uniforms of their various Red Cross services. Left to right, Mrs. O.D.(Lillian) Smart, Mrs. William (Ivy) Fosdi...
Photograph

Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County, with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are sitting in the fore...
Photograph

Veterans of Foreign Wars at Flag Presentation

Date: 10 10 1944
Description: Group portrait of ten members of the Marion C. Cranefield post No. 1318 Veterans of Foreign Wars presenting a United States flag and staff for use at the D...
Photograph

West High School Production "Our Town"

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: West High School student production of "Our Town" with Kenneth Paine, as narrator.
Photograph

Lord and Lady Halifax Visit

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Ambassador Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, meeting with Madison and Wisconsin labor leaders. Lord Halifax is in the center, and to t...
Photograph

Lord and Lady Halifax Visit

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Lord and Lady Halifax with Madison's mayor, F. Halsey Kraege.
Photograph

Manchester War Bond Drawing

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: General Vincent J. Meloy, Truax Field commanding officer, draws war bond No. 96,358,797, which means a war bond for Mrs. Lily Clements, a cook at Hamilton ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Council of Agriculture

Date: 01 08 1945
Description: Eight members of the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture (in no particular order, they probably are: C.F. Claflin, Pres., William H. Hutter, Pres. emeritus, C...
Photograph

John Scharnberg and Vernon Thomson

Date: 08 06 1957
Description: John Scharnberg and Wisconsin Governor Vernon Thomson in the Governor's Office at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Swearing-In of Lieutenant Governor Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 01 01 1945
Description: Lieutenant Governor Oscar Rennebohm being sworn in by Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry.
Photograph

Assembly Speaker Donald McDowell

Date: 01 10 1945
Description: Assembly Speaker Donald McDowell (R) from Soldiers Grove, Crawford County, presiding over the Assembly.

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