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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office
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Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lyman Draper as head of the Society in 1887, and it was Thwaites who was responsible for many of the progressive practices that made the Historical Society a national leader in its field. This portrait embodies Thwaites' reputation as a dynamic administrator and a tireless historian. It also permits us an excellent view of the Eastlake swivel chairs in his office.
1897
Thwaites, Jesse Turville
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WHi 23282
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Historian
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian
1892
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 typewriter, Miss Hawley invented a device to a...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian
1892
Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph, combined with a similar portrait of Em...
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Society Library
May 1896
Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Deta...
Reuben Gold Thwaites in his Office
1892
Reuben Gold Thwaites seated at his desk in his office at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Historical Society Librarian's Office
April 1892
Daniel Steele Durrie, librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at his desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was taken by Reuben Gold Thwaites, secreta...
