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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Stenographers at the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photogra... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Secretary Jennie Nelson seated at her desk in the offices of the La Follette, Harper, Roe, & Zimmerman law partnership. After Robert M. La Follette, Sr., w... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Henry Hamilton Bennett working on a camera in a private car. This is the private car the Wisconsin Central Railroad provided for Bennett and... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Stereogaph of Henry Hamilton Bennett working on a camera in a private car. This is the private car the Wisconsin Central Railroad provided for Bennett and ... |
| Newspaperman, Politician and Inventor |
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| Biography of newspaperman, a politician and typewriter inventor Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| How Wisconsin Eliminated the Death Penalty |
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| Read about the final person to be executed in Wisconsin before the state prohibited the death penalty. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Sholes & Glidden typewriter developed by Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and marketed c. 1874. (Museum object #1964.31) |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office, Madison, Wis. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ... |
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