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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Assembly Speaker's desk, showing an unidentified woman, probably a tourist, standing by the Speaker's chair. In front of the Speaker's desk are the clerks'... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A family is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence. Three of the adults are holding books, one man is holding a long pipe and a girl is holding ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two men, two women are posing in front of a frame house that has a chair, sofa, table and a small white statue on its front porch. There are three doors an... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Left to right, standing: Hans A. Bringager and Erik Sviggum; Seated: C. Gulson, Annie Pedersen, Mary Gulson Brager and her mother Thora Gulson; all gathere... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | A family, possibly that of William Bonner, is posing around a table in a yard. A man is sitting on the left holding a paper in one hand and a glass in the ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Large bracket house with shutters and man on porch; carpenter's lace in excess; family seated in yard in front of house. House also has latticework at foun... |
| Date: | 08 29 1876 |
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| Description: | The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students (primarily women) studying in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. On the left is the Visitors Gallery. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Beloit Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and Andrew Carnegie funded library construction with $25,000. Three women are seated... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Public Library, circulation desk. Cardboard backing reads: "1913, Main Loan Desk." A large group of women in winter coats and ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Mabel Tainter Memorial Library. The library opened in 1891 and was funded by a $95,000 gift from Captain & Mrs. A. Tainter. On the rig... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the center, fra... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Oshkosh Public Library. On the back is the note: Wm. Walker, Oshkosh, arch. 1900 -- cost $55,000. Ionic marble columns, and a round op... |
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| Description: | This view of a holiday fund raising event in the auditorium of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society meeting house shows the woven curtai... |
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