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Soldiers' Orphans Home

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug...
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Madison Public Library

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: Interior of Madison Public Library, 206 North Carroll Street. The view includes the Reference Room, Information Desk, and Return Window with three libraria...
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Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Date: 10 14 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Federation of State, County and Municipal employees outside the Federation Building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. Photograph tak...
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Hill's Department Store Employees Party

Date: 05 29 1933
Description: Group portrait of Hill's Dry Goods Store employees at dinner dance party, Schenk's Hall, 2028 Atwood Avenue. A woman sitting in the center, a woman standin...
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Assembly Speaker's Desk

Date: 1897
Description: Assembly Speaker's desk, showing an unidentified woman, probably a tourist, standing by the Speaker's chair. In front of the Speaker's desk are the clerks'...
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Ballot Box at the City-County Building

Date: 1978
Description: Ballot box collects the vote by absentee ballot in the City County building.
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Election Night

Date: 11 1948
Description: Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's...
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Older Adult Klub String Trio

Date: 09 29 1955
Description: The string trio of the Older Adult Klub (OAK), Gus Torgerson, Henry Brenneman, and Julia Bennett, rehearsing for a senior citizen workshop on recreation fo...
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Madison Community Center Craft Class

Date: 01 04 1955
Description: Lydia MacKenzie, Helen Burkhart, the instructor, and Lucille Harks participate in a class on textile handicrafts at the Madison Community Center.
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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes

Date: 09 09 1944
Description: Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser...
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Tea at the Governor's Residence

Date: 10 01 1944
Description: Officers of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women's Club attending a tea at the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Left to right around th...
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Guests at Walter S. Goodland Inauguration

Date: 01 01 1945
Description: Friends and guests at the Goodland reception including: Mrs. Robert C. Eby, Mrs. M.F. Cooley, Mrs. Paul Irwin, Mrs. Oscar Toebaas, Mrs. Gordon Nelson, Mrs....
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American Library Association Group Portrait

Date: 07 08 1901
Description: Group portrait of members of the American Library Association, Madison, Wisconsin. East front of Wisconsin State Historical Library Building. Charles A. Cu...
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Josephine Harper

Date: 1948
Description: Dr. Josephine Harper, later Josephine Harper Darling, archivist at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and editor of the guide to the papers of Lyma...
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Governor Goodland at the Historical Society

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Description: Clifford L. Lord, director of the State Historical Society (on the right), seated with Governor Walter Goodland and Mrs. Goodland at an event at the Wiscon...
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Legislative Reference Bureau Library

Date: 11 23 1947
Description: Mrs. Ann Johnson, senior clerk typist, filing clippings in the stacks of the Legislative Reference Bureau stacks.
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1948 Primary Elections

Date: 09 21 1948
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of voters and five curtained voting machines at Ward 10.
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Citizens at East Side Hearing

Date: 1949
Description: Thirty citizens, men dressed in suits, two women wearing hats, sit in attendance at a city council hearing proposing an east side emergency hospital.
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Community Chest Budget Committee Visit

Date: 04 21 1950
Description: Members of the Community Chest budget committee are shown craft work done by three boys at Neighborhood House. Members of the committee, left to right, are...
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Neighborhood House Staff

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Staff members of the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, pose around a table for a group portrait. Seated, left to right: Louise Schleicher, as...

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