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Fonthill Castle

Date: 1916
Description: A view of the rotunda at Fonthill Castle, with the floors decorated with parquetry. Two doorways lead to additional rooms while another in the center is op...
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Sacred Heart Academy

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Description: A view of the parlor at Sacred Heart Academy. The room is furnished with a small table which holds a potted plant and Bible. Lining the walls are upholster...
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St. Xavier's Academy

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Description: A view of the piano room at St. Xavier's Academy. An upright piano and a smaller keyboard stand next to each other along a wall decorated with framed pictu...
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Naponach Country Club

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Description: View of a corner of the modernistic room in the Naponach Country Club. View features modern style chairs, tables, and lamps. There are framed photographs o...
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Bird's-Eye View Lithograph

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Description: Bird's-eye view lithograph of Key West with ships and smaller boats in the surrounding waters.
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Marriage of George Washington and Martha Curtis

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Description: Lithograph of 'The Marriage of George Washington and Martha Curtis, 1759,' by Renier Lemercier in 1854.
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Secretary of State Testifying at the Foreign Operations Subcommittee

Date: 03 14 1989
Description: Secretary of State James Baker testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Wisconsin Congressman David R....
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Schultz Before the Committee

Date: 03 06 1986
Description: Secretary of State George Schultz during the Reagan Administration (second from the left) testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. Leaning fo...
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Laird's Office

Date: 2008
Description: Former Wisconsin congressman and defense secretary Melvin Laird seated at the replica of his former offices built by the Marshfield Clinic as part of the L...
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Obey and Lilly

Date: 1976
Description: Congressman David R. Obey in his congressional office with Legislative Aide Scott Lilly.
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School Children at Work

Date: 1932
Description: Pupils at the Northey School, District No. 7, read and work at their desks. Student artwork and other prints decorate the walls.
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Woman in Front of a Mirror

Date: 1898
Description: Unidentified woman posed sitting in front of a dressing table with a tall mirror. She is wearing eyeglasses, a hat with feathers, and a long coat with what...
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Ferdinand Hotz in Office

Date: 1895
Description: A young Ferdinand Hotz sits behind a large desk in his Chicago office. There is an art print and a framed collection of moths and butterflies on the wall b...
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Obey Receives Award

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Description: Congressman David Obey receives an award from the Marshfield Clinic Heritage Foundation. He is wearing a yellow rose boutonniere on his lapel. To Obey's ri...
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Secretary of State Testifying at the Foreign Operations Subcommittee

Date: 03 14 1989
Description: Secretary of State James Baker testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Wisconsin Congressman David R. ...
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Obey and Nelson

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Description: Congressman David Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson in a thoughtful moment. On the wall in the background are landscape photographs.
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Minnesota vs. Wisconsin Democrats

Date: 1972
Description: Before or after a Minnesota vs. Wisconsin Democrats softball game. Congressman David Obey holds up a concept rendering the future Richard I. Bong Memorial ...
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Powell, Obey and Pelosi

Date: 2003
Description: Secretary of State Colin Powell, Congressman David Obey and and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi stand together at a gathering.
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A Sailing Ship

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Description: An illustration of a three-masted sailing ship in the ocean.
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Paul Vanderbilt

Date: 04 1956
Description: Paul Vanderbilt, Curator of the Iconographic Collections (1954-1972), State Historical Society of Wisconsin, examining photographs received from the Mil...

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