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Increase Lapham Examining a Meteorite

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin...
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Baker's Fireplace

Date: 1915
Description: Living room interior of Madeline Island vacation house showing stone fireplace and furniture. The house belonged to the Baker family and later became the h...
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Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
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Congregational Church

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Description: Interior of the Congregational Church on Madeline Island. The ceiling and walls are paneled in birchbark.
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Old Mission Church

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of the Congregational Church, a.k.a. Old Mission Church. The interior walls are covered with cedar trees.
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Loggia Doors at Taliesin

Date: 1957
Description: View from living room out towards the loggia doors leading out to a balcony at Taliesin, the summer home of Frank Lloyd Wright. A hill and trees are in the...
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People Around Crucifixion, Mt. Scopus in Distance #1714

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. A busy landscape of people, animals, and shelters. Mount Scopus is in the distance. Text at righ...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Mrs. Norman Gill is standing and looking out of a window from inside her home at Spring Hill Farm near Cambridge, viewing the surrounding countryside and t...
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Earth Day 1970

Date: 04 1970
Description: Acting on the suggestion of his mentor Senator Gaylord Nelson, Wisconsin congressman David R. Obey participated (here at a gym) at the first Earth Day even...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 387-393

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Description: Hang hope still higher, let it ring
Spend every care this day

for hope itself must decorate the dream
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 562-573

Date: 
Description: A fire is not a place, but a containment
to keep burning.

A reassembly of inner flames around the patriarch,
A school and script for golden we...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 589-598

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Description: Against the prescience of disaster is the safety of even numbers
Postcard

Greetings from Walmar Lodge

Date: 1927
Description: Photographic postcard with views of Walmar Lodge, with two cottages and the Wisconsin River as seen from the lodge. Caption reads: "Greetings from Walmar L...
Photograph

022 - Dining Porch

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Description: Interior view of the Dining Porch, which ran the entire length of the Main Lodge. View from porch is to the southeast, with a view of Lake Raymond (now kno...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
Postcard

Chateau Madeleine

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Description: Color postcard view of the dining room, with large picture windows, and sundeck, with a view of Lake Superior and the mainland hills in the distance.
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A Stump Speech by Jeannette Holt

Date: 1898
Description: Jeannette Holt giving a stump speech on the porch at Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "A stump speech by Jeannette."
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Church Service on Island Lodge Porch

Date: 1907
Description: Sunday church service is being held on the screened porch at Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. Left to right, front row: Eleanor Holt, Donald Holt. Second ro...
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Lucy Holt Playing the Pump Organ during Church Service

Date: 09 01 1907
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt is playing the pump organ during Sunday church service on the Island Lodge porch. Her brother-in-law Grant Stroh is sitting in the corner ...
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Jeannette Holt Reading on the New Porch Addition at Island Lodge

Date: 1911
Description: Seen in profile, Jeannette Holt is sitting in a rocking chair and reading a book, on the new porch addition to Island Lodge. A table with tablecloth and ch...

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