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Unidentified Young Girl

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of unidentified young girl. She is sitting on a chair, with her left hand resting on a cloth-covered table on which three boo...
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Unidentified Girl

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of unidentified young girl. Full-length portrait, facing front. She is standing on a carpet, with her left forearm resting on a cloth-cov...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Pannotype on blackened leather of unidentified man. Waist-up, facing front with torso turned slightly right. He is wearing a suit coat and tie.
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Quarter plate ambrotype of an unidentified man, probably a relative of the Chandler family. Quarter-length portrait, facing front, wearing a suit coat with...
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Unidentified Men

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Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of two unidentified men. Three-quarter length portrait of the men sitting, facing forward, with their hands on their laps. ...
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Eleazer Williams

Date: 1858
Description: Ferrotype/tintype of Eleazer Williams (circa 1788-1858). He faces slightly left and wears a dark suit with stand collar. Cheeks and lower lip hand tinted...
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Louisa Zimmer and Ada (?) Empey

Date: 1872
Description: Ferrotype/tintype of Louisa Zimmer and Ada (?) Empey. The girl on the left is standing, facing halfway right, wearing a dark dress and ruched collar, her h...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Sixteenth plate ferrotype/tintype of unidentified man. Quarter-length portrait, facing forward, wearing suit and tie, with sideburn whiskers. Cheeks are ha...
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Captain Peter Smith

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of Captain Peter Smith. Full-length portrait, facing front, with body facing slightly right, with his left hand on the back of a chair. H...
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Lamont and His Wife

Date: 1849
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lamont and his wife, Scottish immigrants. Waist-up portrait, seated facing forward. He is wearing a suit and tie, and she is w...
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James McKesson

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Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype of James McKesson, pioneer settler in Superior, Wisconsin. Waist-up portrait, seated, facing forward wearing a suit, tie, and...
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Henry E. Knapp

Date: 12 1858
Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype of Henry E. Knapp, seated on a balloon-back chair, left forearm resting on cloth-covered table, right hand in lap. He is wear...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of unidentified man, probably a relative of the Chandler family. Bust portrait, facing forward, wearing light-colored suit with v...
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R. W. Wells

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of R.W. Wells, a druggist and civic leader in Waupun, Wisconsin. He was elected as trustee of Waupun in 1865. He faces forward with t...
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Ann Elizabeth Stone

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Ann Elizabeth Stone, daughter of Samuel and Caroline Allcott Stone, taken in the mid-1840s. Three-quarter length seated pose, ...
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James Day and Boy

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of James Day (left) and an unidentified boy, possibly Lionel Warrington Day. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forwar...
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Ursula Grignon

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Ursula Grignon. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward, wearing a dark cape with fur wrapped around shoulders, and ...
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Jedidiah K. Wood

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Jedidiah K. Wood, from Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in an unusual pose standing behind a lectern. He wears a suit and tie with the c...
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Matilda Hood

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Matilda Hood, first female settler in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1829. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward, ha...
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Colonel Samuel Stone

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Colonel Samuel Stone. Half length, seated, portrait, facing forward with left forearm on cloth covered table. He is wearing a ...

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