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Pierce Home

Date: 1888
Description: An interior look at the so-called Pierce home, located at 424 North Pinckney Street, at the corner of Pinckney and Gilman Streets. At the time this photogr...
Book or Pamphlet

42 - Medical Instruments

Date: 1943
Description: Medical instruments and medicine used for the care of angora rabbits.
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Carter and Nelson

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Description: President Jimmy Carter and Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson in the White House Oval Office.
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Maynard Brichford

Date: 1955
Description: Maynard Brichford, Illinois State Archivist and noted authority on archives and record management issues, photographed earlier in his career in the archive...
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Archivist Jesse Boell

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Description: Wisconsin Historical Society archivist Jesse Boell, later the archivist of the University of Wisconsin, seen in his office on the third floor of the Histor...
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Dining Room at 675 Rush Street

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Description: Ornately decorated dining room at 675 Rush Street [?], the McCormick family residence.
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1928-Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: Living Room of the 1928 demonstration home in Kohler, Wisconsin, showing health carpet, tan murescoed wall, fireplace with wrought iron fire set, della rob...
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Kohler Demonstration House, 1928-Living Room

Date: 1928
Description: Living Room, looking toward the sun room, showing the green velvet sofa, coffee table with fuschia plant, desk, over curtains (tan background, with old ros...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1928- Bedroom

Date: 1928
Description: Bedroom in the 1928 Demonstration Home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The decor features jade green furniture, a flowered chair, and corn-colored curtains banded wi...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, Guest Room

Date: 1929
Description: Guest room in the 1929 demonstration home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The decor featured lavender organdie curtains, a flowered cretonne covered chair, a cane se...
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1929 Kohler Demonstration Home, 1929-Bedroom

Date: 1929
Description: Bedroom in 1929 Demonstration Home in Kohler, Wisconsin. The bedroom is painted in buff moresco. There is a braided rug and a hooked rug on the floor. It...
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Kohler Demonstration Home, 1929-Bedroom

Date: 1929
Description: Bedroom in the 1929 Demonstration Home in Kohler, Wisconsin, decorated for a young boy. The spool bed is covered with a green, yellow and red India coverl...
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Interior of John Olin Home

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Description: Interior fireplace view of the John M. Olin House, 130 North Prospect Avenue, University Heights neighborhood. The house, which displays traditional Gothic...
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Interior of John Olin Home

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Description: Interior fireplace view of the John M. Olin House, 130 North Prospect Avenue, University Heights neighborhood. The house, which displays traditional Gothic...
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Historical Library Reading Room

Date: 1955
Description: View of the Historical Society Library Reading Room taken from the Visitors Gallery. Although undated, the photograph was probably taken shortly after the...
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Lucille Kellar

Date: 1955
Description: Lucille Kellar, coordinator of the Historical Society's McCormick Collection, with the new cases for the collection. She is standing outside the north entr...
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Wisconsin Historical Society Periodical Reading Room

Date: 1901
Description: SHSW Periodical Reading Room, showing mezzanine stacks, original tables and lamps, and coffered ceiling treatment. Among the University of Wisconsin studen...
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SHSW Library Reading Room

Date: 1912
Description: The Historical Society Library delivery desk and librarians Mary S. Foster, Esther DeBoos, and Edna C. Adams, 1912. At the time, patrons and students were...
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A Musical Performance

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Description: A woman with a ukulele in a household setting.
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Thordarson Library with Fireplace

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Description: Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo...

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