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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wisconsin State Prison. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Family seated in yard around set table drinking coffee. Behind them is an upright and wing stone house with a frame addition and latticework and board fenc... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of a church interior looking up the aisle between the pews and towards the altar. An acoustical hood or sounding board is over the pulpit, and the alt... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family of sixe seated in front of large stone house that has glass trim around the centrally placed door. Lightning rods are on the two chimneys. A man on ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Harmon J. Hill and family, all dressed formally, posing in front of their home. This sandstone house was built in 1857 and later became part of the Univers... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | East entrance of State Historical Society of Wisconsin showing the decorative details of the building. This detail shows the four lion's heads and columns. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Interior of State Historical Society of Wisconsin during construction. Image shows bricks used in the building and workers. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | High school, built in 1857 and destroyed by fire in 1899. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893 in the 900 block of East Gorham Street. Above the doorway is a carved decoration of a shield and the words: "Semper Parat... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, at 645 Franklin Place, also know as "The Lion House." Home is set back from the road, wit... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Babcock home, a Queen Ann style structure at 537 E. Wisconsin Avenue. People, presumably the Babcock family, are standing in front of ... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of a large, stone residence with the first Ferris Wheel in the distance. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp. The driver is holding a long whip and is wearing a top hat, winter coat a... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five men standing on and near a horse-drawn wagon in front of a grist mill, a stone building on the side of a hill. |
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