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| Date: | 05 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Victorian cocktail room, Park Hotel, featuring a portrait of Queen Victoria and a large pier mirror. |
| Date: | 04 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Attendees in formal wear are standing in a military ball receiving line, from right to left: Sam Pierce, Arnold H. Dammen, Helga Gundersen, Ralph M. Immel... |
| Date: | 03 25 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap... |
| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, of Hollywood, California, and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, stand in front of a por... |
| Date: | 10 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Abraham Lincoln impersonator, Charles E. Bull, Hollywood, California and Jesse S. Meyers, commander of the Madison G.A.R. post, and two other men are stand... |
| Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
| Date: | 10 17 1928 |
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| Description: | Interior of Kilowatt clubhouse on Lake Monona. There is a piano along the back wall. A sign painted along a beam on the ceiling reads: "To err is Human — t... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1903 group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, showing Justice Robert G. Siebecker, then the least senior member of the court. Siebecker... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored photograph depicting a Native American mother holding her child in a cradleboard. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans pre... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored postcard depicting Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first cur... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Female students performing a dumbbell drill inside the gymnasium at the Indian Industrial School. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Male students performing a club drill inside the gymnasium at the Indian Industrial School. |
| Date: | 10 1987 |
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| Description: | Faculty and students pose in front of a Harrell International Institute building. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior view of three-tiered altar, with gilded ornamentation surrounding it, two candlesticks, and several paintings on the walls. |
| Date: | 10 1975 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Senator William Proxmire. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Posed portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., and Jr., seated at a table with a stairway behind them. It is likely this photograph was taken in the... |
| Date: | 10 03 1900 |
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| Description: | View from audience of William Jennings Bryan, as Democratic nominee for election to the presidency, addressing a crowd, estimated at 15,000 people, at a st... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | The G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) Memorial Hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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