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  • Wisconsin Magazine of History

    Curio

    Sep 03, 2018 1 minute

    But to anyone who has spent some time at the Wisconsin Historical Society, it might be familiar. Several dozen chairs in this style were purchased when the headquarters building opened in, Milo M. Quaife. The chair currently resides in the University of Wisconsin Archives.

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