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| Date: | 03 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip La Follette, the son of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., signing a gas tax bill. Senator John E. Cashman, author of the bill, stands on... |
| Date: | 02 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Seated L to R: Senator Herman J. Severson, Senator Walter S. Goodland, chairman of the committee, and Oliver Knutson, clerk of the committee. Standing is E... |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and his wife Rachael Young La Follette in the library at Maple Bluff Farm. This photograph was taken durin... |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. at the La Follette Farm in Maple Bluff. There is a spinning wheel beside him on the right near a bookcase. |
| Date: | 10 09 1928 |
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| Description: | George A. Nelson, Milltown, former assemblyman and president of the Wisconsin Union of the American Society of Equity, and John E. Cashman, Denmark, State ... |
| Date: | 10 09 1928 |
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| Description: | George A. Nelson, Milltown, former assemblyman and president of the Wisconsin Union of the American Society of Equity, and John E. Cashman, Denmark, State ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | The only known visual documentation of the Senate Chamber in the third Wisconsin Capitol. It was probably more colorful than it appears here. In 1869 a rep... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of legislators in the Assembly Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1899 Assembly Chamber photograph, showing a row of legislators at their desks. Until well into the 20th century, individual legislators had n... |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1899 Senate photograph, showing details such as the president's chair (much more ornamented than the Assembly Speaker's chair) and desk with ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Otto Onstad, a newly elected assemblyman from Dane County, in the newly constructed Assembly Chamber of the present Wisconsin State Capitol. He is sitting ... |
| Date: | 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire greets three elderly women seated on a bench at the Capitol Square. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly-elected members of the Wisconsin Assembly signing in. Facing the camera left to right are: E. William Proxmire (D-Madison), Hermann Eisner (D-Cross P... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Mourners outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol lined up to view the body of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Funeral of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison. Mourners gathered around La Follette's flag-draped coffin include Philip... |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | The funeral procession of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., begins its journey from the Capitol to Forest Hill Cemetery, travelling east around the Squa... |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | The automobile bearing the casket of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., begins it journey from the Wisconsin Capitol to Forest Hill Cemetery. Here it is ... |
| Date: | 06 22 1925 |
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| Description: | Pallbearers (who include Senator Herman Ekern), carry the flag draped casket of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., down the steps of the Wisconsin Capitol... |
| Date: | 03 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off... |
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