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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...
Historical Object

Unidentified Man

Date: 1837
Description: Aperture-type silhouette cut from ivory colored paper on black ground of unidentified man. Subject faces right (proper left) wearing a tie and ruffled shir...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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. ...
Photograph

Unidentified Men

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype full-length portrait of three young unidentified men wearing hats, sitting on a twig bench in front of a painted backdrop, facing forward...
Painting

Unidentified Young Woman

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Description: Painted miniature of a young woman wearing a pendant necklace, blue robe over chemise, and straw bonnet with blue ribbon tied under her chin.
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Family Group, Two Women and a Boy

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of three-quarter length group portrait of two young women, sitting, and a young boy, standing, all facing forward. The woman on the l...
Photograph

Family Group, Woman and Two Boys

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of three-quarter length group portrait of a woman, sitting on the right, and two boys on the left. The boy in the center is sitting, ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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