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Rachel Lawe Grignon

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype, waist-up portrait of Rachel Lawe Grignon, daughter of John Lawe and wife of Pierre Bernard Grignon. Wearing heavy bead necklac...
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Clarissa Clark Merwin

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Description: Sixth-plate daguerreotype of Clarissa Clark Merwin, sister of Darwin Clark. Seated half figure facing front, torso facing right. She is wearing a white col...
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Sophronia Newcomb Larkin

Date: 1845
Description: A sixth-plate daguerreotype of Sophronia Newcomb Larkin, who married Benjamin Franklin Larkin. She is seated, and is wearing a dress with a white collar. H...
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Irene Larkin

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Description: Cased albumen print of Irene Larkin, a school teacher. Bust figure facing right, wearing a choker, necklace, and a cross at her lace collar. She has a bow ...
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Woman and Child

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of unidentified woman seated on a cane-back chair, holding a child on her lap. The woman has a plaid shawl wrapped around he...
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Mary La Follette and her Children

Date: 1858
Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Mary La Follette and her four children, left to right, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Josephine, William, and (standing) El...
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Dean Family Sleighing

Date: 1852
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn...
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Unidentified Woman with Infant

Date: 1848
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated woman in a long-sleeve printed dress and shoulder-length side curls, holding a sleeping baby on her lap with her righ...
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Vedder House

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Cornelia Vedder house. A woman is standing on the porch. Described as the house "where George Winnie, a conductor on the...
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Lucetta Case

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Description: Quarter plate tintype/ferrotype of Lucetta Case (1808-1884). Three-quarter-length seated figure wearing dark dress with white collar, and ribbons in hair, ...
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Young Woman

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of an unidentified young woman in dotted long sleeve dress, seated and holding a purse and a bouquet of flowers. Hand coloring on che...
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Unidentified Woman and Young Girl

Date: 1860
Description: Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a woman and a young girl. The woman is seated, and the girl is standing beside her resting her hand on the woman's should...
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Unidentified Native American Woman

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of an unidentified Native American woman, possibly from the Canadian Woodland Tribe. She is seated with a blanket around her shou...
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Margaret Stoltz

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Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up seated portrait of Margaret Stoltz, in mourning attire, including a veil over her head. She later married and becam...
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Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond

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Description: Ninth plate tintype/ferrotype. Quarter-length portrait of Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond. She is wearing a dark-colored dress, and a cap that ties under her ch...
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Unidentified Daguerreotype of Couple

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Description: Half plate daguerreotype of an unidentified man and woman. The man is seated and the woman is standing and has her hand resting on the man's shoulder. The ...
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Elsey Ormsbee Bristol

Date: 1840
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha...
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Franz Massing, Wife and Child

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Description: Half plate ambrotype of Franz Massing with his wife, and daughter Frances. Massing was the founder of the Madison Mannerchor in 1870. The family is seated....
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Lucy Moody

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype. Waist-up portrait of Lucy Moody. Lucy is wearing a dark dress with a white-work collar, and a brooch at the neck. Over the dress she...
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Mathilde Franziska Anneke

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Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke, seated with her hands on her lap. Hand coloring on cheeks. Mrs. Anneke was c...

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