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Schuetzen Park Pier

Date: 08 1894
Description: View from shoreline of two people standing on Schuetzan Park pier. A sailboat is docked at the end of the pier and there is a steamboat on the water.
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The Armory from Mrs. Alden's

Date: 1894
Description: View of the Armory (Red Gym or Old Red) as seen from Mrs. Alden's on Frances Street, looking west toward Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Darwin Clark

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Darwin Clark, standing and wearing a long coat and a top hat. Clark arrived in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1837, to work on the cons...
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La Fayette Kellogg

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of La Fayette Kellogg, clerk of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Legislature.
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Grace Clark Conover

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Grace Clark Conover, the daughter of Darwin Clark and the wife of Frederic Conover, pictured here as a young girl wearing a sho...
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Helen Adams Kellogg

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Madison resident Helen R. Adams, the second wife of La Fayette Kellogg and the sister of Frances Adams Clark, the wife o...
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Philo Dunning

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Description: Head and shoulders carte-de-visite portrait of Philo Dunning, who in partnership with his son-in-law Louis Sumner, established one of the most prominent ph...
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Sophia Dunning

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Description: Head and shoulders carte-de-visite portrait of Sophia Goodnow Dunning of Madison, Wisconsin, the wife of pharmacist Philo Dunning and the mother of Mrs. Ed...
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Edwin Sumner

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin Sumner, seated, a leading Madison pharmacist who was in partnership with his father-in-law, Philo Dunning.
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Mrs. Edwin Sumner

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders carte-de-visite portrait of Nettie Sumner, the wife of one Madison pharmacist, Edwin Sumner, and the daughter of another, Phil...
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Julia Darst Conover

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Darst Conover, the first wife of University of Wisconsin faculty member, Obadieh M. Conover. She died in Madis...
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Sarah Goodnow Clark

Date: 1854
Description: Sarah Goodnow married early Madison settler Darwin Clark in 1848 and died in Madison in 1854. Her sister Sophia was married to Madison pharmacist Philo Du...
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Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, the daughter of Jairus Fairchild and the sister of Governor Lucius Fairchild. Sarah ma...
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Mrs. Darwin Clark

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Description: Portrait of Frances Adams Clark, the second wife of Darwin Clark of Madison. Prior to her marriage Mrs. Clark was a school teacher in Fond du Lac and Madi...
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Pinckney Street

Date: 1894
Description: Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. About 1894. Pinckney Street looking from 309 N. Pinckney." This was the home of Frederick King Conover.
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Benjamin Walker Castle

Date: 10 1893
Description: Looking towards the Benjamin Walker Castle, 1862-1893 from the path leading up to the front entrance in the 900 block of East Gorham Street.

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