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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Museum Exhibit

Date: 1900
Description: Artifacts from the New Richmond tornado on display in the Historical Society's museum in the Wisconsin State Capitol. The display of such curiosities, now ...
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Old Abe and Historical Society Museum

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Description: The Civil War Room of the Historical Society Museum photographed sometime after 1900 when the society moved from third Wisconsin State Capitol to its new b...
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Surgical Tools

Date: 1927
Description: Surgical instruments on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
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Medicine Chest

Date: 1935
Description: A medicine chest and its contents on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Museum Pharmacy

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: A woman, her son, and a sales clerk, all in period costumes in the drug store / pharmacy display in the Wisconsin Historical Society museum, then located o...
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Colonial Kitchen in Historical Museum

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Joyce Elmer is basting a chicken in an iron reflector oven and Gene Lyte is using a butter churn. Both women are University of Wisconsin home economics maj...
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Colonial Kitchen in Historical Museum

Date: 11 07 1944
Description: Isomel Billings is using an old-fashioned broom, Lietzel Pelican and Patricia Cirves are operating a sausage grinder. The women are University of Wisconsin...
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Herbert Kellar and Clifford Lord

Date: 12 1951
Description: State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director Clifford Lord (left) and McCormick Collection Director Herbert Kellar examining packages of manuscripts. The...
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Construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Date: 1899
Description: View of construction workers and stone carvers/cutters (some of them probably Italian) showing the detailed sections of the building of the State Historica...
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Construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Date: 1899
Description: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, during construction. Details of interior, including ceiling and arches.
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Historical Society Museum

Date: 1962
Description: Children in line to participate in the reconstruction of an old time grocery store, one of the exhibitions located on the second floor of the Galloway hous...
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Galloway House Museum Parlor

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Description: Interior view of the parlor, with a piano on the left, a sofa to the right in the corner of the room, and a portrait on an easel in the center. There is a ...
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Kohler Opens History Exhibit

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., cuts a ribbon to open the "They Did It Themselves: 50 Years Ago" exhibit at the State Historical Society. Mrs. Vincent W. K...
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Grand Army Home

Date: 1955
Description: A display of military memorabilia at the Grand Army Home. Caption reads: "Museum - Grand Army Home - King, Wis".
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Mastodon

Date: 06 18 1972
Description: A Mastodon Americanus Cuvier on display in the Science and Natural History Museum in Science Hall on Langdon and Park Streets at the University of Wisconsi...
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Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su...
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Douglas County Historical Museum

Date: 1940
Description: Dipslay of Sioux Indian Relics. Caption reads: "Barry Room, Sioux Indian Relics, Douglas County Historical Museum, Superior, Wis."
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Door County Museum

Date: 1945
Description: View of the fireplace in the interior of the Door County Museum. The text along the mantel reads: "The Past, The Present, and the Future Cannot Be Separate...
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Charles Arndt's Vest

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Bette Lou Becker and Jeanne Lamoreaux, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, model and admire the vest of Charles C.P. Arndt. Arndt was shot through the c...
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Dr. Albert Goetze and Cuneiform Tablets

Date: 07 16 1944
Description: Dr. Albert Goetze, professor of Assyriology at Yale University, examining 4000 year old Sumerian cuneiform tablets from the Wisconsin State Historical Soci...

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