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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Assembly members of 1863. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Composite of photographic portraits of men in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man. |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Pitt Lynde at the Wisconsin Assembly in 1866. Ten years later he introduced legislation for women's suffrage to U.S. Congress. In the b... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of John Rugee, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| 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: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Philetus Sawyer, congressman, U.S. Senator, and Oshkosh lumber baron (1816-1900). During the 1880s and 1890s Sawyer was one of a small group of conservati... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. at the age of 29 when elected to Congress in 1884. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Matthew Anderson, #26 in a composite of Wisconsin Senate and State Officers. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Asaph Whittlesey dressed for his journey from Ashland to Madison, Wisconsin, to take up his seat in the state legislature. Whittlesey is attired for the lo... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Leonard J. Farwell (1819-1889), Madison businessman-promoter and Wisconsin's only Whig governor (1852-1854). When this salted paper portrait was taken, Far... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Republican Louis P. Harvey, while he was Wisconsin secretary of state (1860-1861). Harvey became governor in January, 1862, but drowned in the ... |
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