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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil... |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony (standing), with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, five years after completion of their three-volume work entitled "History of Woman Suf... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the... |
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| Description: | Astronaut Donald K. Slayton of Sparta, Wisconsin. Slayton enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 at age 18 and flew 56 combat missions in B-25s during Worl... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
| Date: | 05 09 1938 |
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| Description: | Ruth Ryan, bond secretary of C.U.N.A., Credit Union National Association, with empty bank cans and money. |
| Date: | 06 15 1935 |
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| Description: | U.S. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and Governor Phillip La Follette standing in the governor's office. |
| Date: | 01 03 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Miss Gertrude Deniger sitting at her desk. She is executive secretary of the Madison division, Wisconsin Transient Bureau, 133 East Wilson Stre... |
| Date: | 12 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Mayor James R. Law sitting at a desk signing a document in City Hall, 2-4 W. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor La Follette signing old age pension bill. |
| Date: | 02 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Solomon Levitan, state treasurer, receiving subscription book from Charles Loewenberg, manager of Fox Strand Theater. |
| Date: | 02 27 1931 |
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| Description: | Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman getting a theater pass from Charles Loewenberg, manager of the Strand Theatre. |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | New police chief candidate, William H. McCormick, sitting behind a desk. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., taken in the Governor's Office in the Wisconsin State Capitol on his Inauguration Day. |
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| Description: | William Arthur Jones, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1897-1905. |
| Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly inaugurated Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. sits at his desk in the Governor's office. Behind him are several bouquets of flowers and a Wisconsin flag... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas E. Coleman sitting at a desk. He was the "boss" of the Republican Party in Wisconsin in the 1950s and President of Madison-Kipp Corporat... |
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