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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Quarter-plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length portrait of John H. Fonda, settler in the Prairie Du Chien area. He is sitting facing front, with one hand in... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Menominee Indian chief Aquanama and Menominee Indian Paul Ackenebowa, seated, facing front, both wearing hats, coats and n... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype oval-framed portrait of Doctor James T. Reeve, assistant surgeon, 10th Wisconsin, Surgeon of the 21st Wisconsin. Quarter-leng... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Leonard J. Farwell, Governor of Wisconsin 1852-54. Quarter length facing left, wearing full beard, coat, vest, tie, and white ... |
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| Description: | Ferrotype/tintype portrait of Corporal Cornelius Wheeler of Company I of the 2nd Wisconsin Regiment. Standing, facing forward with arms folded, in full uni... |
| Date: | 07 20 1853 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of Governor William Barstow (1813-1865). Quarter-length portrait, facing forward, hand-in-waistcoat. |
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| Description: | Ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Chandler B. Chapman of Madison, quarter length facing front with torso facing right. Dr. Chapman served as a reg... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype, waist-up portrait of Oluf Ammundson and August Sweger. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Peter Larsen in a Civil War uniform holding a firearm. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype waist-up portrait of Van Swearingen Brady of Ohio, son of Captain Samuel Brady. |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Daniel Wells, quarter length facing front, with hand-coloring on cheeks. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Ninth plate ambrotype quarter-length portrait of Mr. Ira Colby, a teacher of the Union School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He has a beard and is wearing a suit ... |
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| Description: | Ninth plate tintype/ferrotype portrait of Fritz Anneke sitting in a chair. Fritz Anneke was a German socialist and newspaper editor and writer. He immigrat... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype. Waist-up seated studio portrait of Governor Louis P. Harvey (1820-1862), facing front with torso turned slightly left. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of Nelson Dewey (1813-1889). Waist -up, facing forward, wearing suit and with right arm resting on a surface. Dewey was Governor o... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype waist-up portrait of Captain William H. Chapman, a regular army officer who served in the Mexican War and the Civil War. After re... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Ferrotype/tintype of a studio portrait of Blacksmith Wanamaker and an unidentified man standing on either side of an anvil. The man on the left is holding ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length studio portrait of James Steele sitting in a chair with his arm resting on a table covered with a patterned c... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate tintype/ferrotype of a waist-up seated portrait of an unidentified Civil War musician holding a musical horn, probably a Tenor horn in B♭... |
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