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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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Alexander W. Collins

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Alexander W. Collins in Civil War uniform, waist-up portrait, facing front. Top button and several lower buttons closed, c...
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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 Young Man

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of unidentified man, waist-up portrait, sitting in front of a painted land- or sea-scape backdrop, with curtains tied back on the rig...
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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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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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John H. Knapp

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of John H. Knapp. He is seated, facing forward, and is wearing a suit with velvet collar, plaid vest, cravat, and stand-up collar...
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Mrs. Thomas H. Stewart

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Mrs. Thomas Stewart. Seated three-quarter figure, body facing right (proper left) and head facing front, hands in her lap. She...
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Jerome Luther Marsh

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Jerome Luther Marsh. Half length figure, facing forward, wearing dark suit and tie, with satin or silk vest.
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Elisha Burdick with Unidentified Man and Child

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Elisha Burdick with unidentified man and child. Men are seated, facing forward, wearing suits. Burdick on left, wears full bea...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of unidentified man, a friend of Charles S. Benton of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Half length seated figure facing forward with right...
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Susan Hempstead Gratiot

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Susan Hempstead Gratiot, seated facing left but eyes focused forward. Right elbow rests on table. She wears a white bonnet tie...
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John Catlin and Wife

Date: 1847
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of John Catlin and his wife, seated, facing forward. He wears a suit, and she a dark dress with white collar, and plaid ribbon cr...
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Frederick J. Starin

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Frederick J. Starin. Half length portrait, facing forward with right forearm on table, wearing suit and tie with collar turned...
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Edward Beers

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Edward Beers, facing forward, wearing a suit and double-breasted plaid vest and checked tie, with stand collar.
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Julia Williams

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of Julia Williams. Half length portrait, facing forward with her hands folded, wearing a dress of flocked fabric, white collar, brooc...
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Private Simon O. Myhre

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Simon O. Myhre of Company I, 15th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry. Seated, facing forward, with rifle held up, pointing to up...

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