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Bedroom at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Sleeping quarters at the State School for the Blind, with four single beds, a dresser, a chair, and a table.
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Recital Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Music recital room at the State School for the Blind with seven rows of seating, a piano and cello. Adorning the front wall is the Latin phrase "Lux Oritur...
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Weaving Room at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind.
Painting

Wounded Union Civil War Soldier

Date: 1886
Description: Oil on linen study of a Union Civil War soldier examining his wound. The study was created as part of the work of the German panorama painters active in M...
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State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Interior of the State School for the Blind, perhaps a study or room for recreation. Included in the room are several tables with small models, a piano, and...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Dispensary

Date: 1893
Description: Pharmacy supplies are displayed in shelves in an office at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, lit by gas lamps hanging above the desk. (Mendota M...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Billiards Room

Date: 1893
Description: A game room with chairs, a pool table, a rack for cue sticks, and a table with checker board and deck of cards is available for patients' recreation at the...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Kitchen

Date: 1893
Description: Freshly-baked loaves of bread are stacked on tables with bowls and trays of other food items in the large kitchen at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the I...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Laboratory

Date: 1893
Description: Crocks and bottles of various sizes line shelves, while beakers and mortars and pestles rest on counter tops in the brick-floored pharmaceutical lab at the...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Laundry

Date: 1893
Description: Sinks, tubs, and cylindrical washing machines on pulleys make up the laundry facilities at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Heal...
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Haymarket Square Riot Infirmary

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: A photograph of a painting depicting the wounded being treated at Desplaines Street police station after the Haymarket Square riot. The riot started as a r...
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Wisconsin State Hospital For The Insane

Date: 1893
Description: Winter view of the Wisconsin State Hospital For The Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Family outside of Dr. Blake's home

Date: 1877
Description: A dirt road leads to Dr. Blake's (probably Samuel M.) frame house in Lodi or Prairie du Sac. A family is under a tree near a wooden fence. On the right is...
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Dr. McConnell Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits in the yard of a large brick house that has round-top windows with two small windows on the third floor. The porch has a latticework skirting...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1860
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane designed by Stephen V. Shipman (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields.
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Group at Picnic Point

Date: 1877
Description: A group, probably at Picnic Point on Lake Mendota in Madison, posed under the trees. Picnic baskets are behind them. Mrs. Bashford is the person in Mrs. ...
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Reaper Boy in Stable

Date: 1877
Description: A horse named Reaper Boy in a stable. Photographed at the residence of Dr. Blake (probably Samuel M.).

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