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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Fairbanks Museum of Natural History taken from the balcony. Established in 1891, the museum features animals and artifacts. A... |
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| Description: | Interior of the museum building of the New York Botanical Garden. Completed in 1901, the entrance hall features columns and a staircase that leading up to... |
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| Description: | Interior of an art museum. The view includes a bench and table in the middle of the room and walls lined with paintings. Potted plants stand on either side... |
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| Description: | Interior of Parrish Art Museum, built in 1898. The gallery features many paintings, portraits and sculptures. On the far wall, a pipe organ can be seen. Ca... |
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| Description: | Interior of Parrish Art Museum, built in 1898. The gallery features many sculptures and opens to another room on the right. |
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| Description: | Interior of Parrish Art Museum, built in 1898. The gallery features sculptures a a bas relief along the ceiling. The room leads to another room through an... |
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| Description: | Model of the Mayflower in Pilgrim Hall, a museum built in 1824. The flags of England top the sails. Copyright by A.B. Burbank, Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
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| Description: | View of a sculpture entitled, "Mars and Cupid." The sculpture was completed in the fourth century, B.C. and was taken from the Museo Delle Terme in Rome. |
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| Description: | Interior view of a glass display case, possibly in a museum. It appears to be displaying a collection of pottery and skeletal remains. Framed portraits han... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. After his death in 1881 he was stuffed, mounted, and put in the Capitol museum.<... |
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| Description: | An eagle of the same type as "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War, displayed in the Civil War Roo... |
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| Description: | A mailman in a horse-drawn mail wagon makes a delivery to a man standing beside him in an exhibit at the Farmer's Museum. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | John Wilde, Associate Professor in the School of Education's Department of Art Education, instructing a student in perspective sketching during a class mee... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Two students in the Art Education Department's perspective sketching class held in the museum of the State Historical Society. |
| Date: | 03 01 1968 |
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| Description: | Teachers from St. Rose Catholic School, 514 N. 31st St., Sister Mathia (left) and Sister Geran, visited a show of the artworks of the 1930's in the mezzani... |
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| Description: | View of a woman weaving with a loom as an exhibit at the Farmer's Museum, which opened in 1944. There is another loom behind her. |
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| Description: | View of men examining an ox-cart at Farmer's Museum, which opened in 1944. |
| Date: | 07 17 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Clifford Lee Lord, director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, sitting at his desk. |
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| Description: | The original collection of fifty books that formed the foundation of the Wisconsin Historical Society Library in 1853. The books are displayed on shelves i... |
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