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Photograph

Frank Lloyd Wright Monitoring Building Site

Date: 1937
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright, monitoring the construction and testing of load-bearing pylons for the Johnson Wax Building.
Drawing

Chandler Citrus Workers Camp

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Description: Pencil sketch of Chandler citrus workers camp designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Floor Plan

Date: 1904
Description: The floor plan of the first floor of the third Wisconsin Capitol as published in 1904 under the title "Program issued by the Capitol Improvement Commission...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Floor Plan

Date: 1904
Description: The floor plan of the second floor of the third Wisconsin Capitol as published in 1904 under the title "Program issued by the Capitol Improvement Commissio...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Music Hall Demolition

Date: 1890
Description: Demolished brick building.
Photograph

Music Hall Wreck with Ladder

Date: 1890
Description: Demolished building with a group of men standing on the rubble.
Photograph

Monona Terrace Mock-up

Date: 12 28 1955
Description: Composite showing how the proposed Monona Terrace Auditorium will look against the Madison skyline.
Photograph

Lake Forest Community Plan

Date: 1917
Description: The Lake Forest community plan, a model community that was planned for the site where the University of Wisconsin Arboretum now stands.
Photograph

Power House

Date: 1906
Description: Power house during construction.
Drawing

Original Plan of State Office Building

Date: 1929
Description: A drawing of a State Office Building as originally proposed.
Photograph

Building at Highlander

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Description: Two men working on the construction of a building at Highlander Folk School.
Map or Atlas

Map of Farwell's Point

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Description: Wisconsin Memorial Hospital with a key to buildings in the upper left. Indian mounds are marked on the site. Arthur Peabody was the state architect for th...
Photograph

Mill Site

Date: 08 01 1908
Description: Site in a forest of a mill, a log pond, and a dam. The location of the mill, pond and dam are sketched on the photograph.
Photograph

Bathhouse at Devil's Lake State Park

Date: 
Description: An interior view of partially-built dressing court, showing men working at roughing in plumbing to floor drains of the bathhouse at Devil's Lake State Park...
Photograph

Bates Home Under Construction

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Description: View of Daisy and L.C. Bates's house under construction.
Photograph

Bates Home Under Construction

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Description: Exterior view of front of the house of Daisy and L.C. Bates. The house is under construction. The walls and roof have been built, and a pile of bricks are ...
Book or Pamphlet

Kitchen Garden Diagram

Date: 1858
Description: Diagram drawing of a kitchen vegetable garden.
Photograph

Prospect Street

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Description: View down Prospect Street, a dirt road, featuring the construction of a brick corner building. Two men look on from the steps of their home across the str...
Photograph

Nenana Native American Mission

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Description: View of a group portrait before a Nenana Mission in a phase of construction.

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