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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist and peace advocate, holding an American flag. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, the President of UW Madison 1887-1892. |
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| Description: | Formal waist-up studio portrait of Marshall M. Strong. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of United States senator Isaac Stephenson. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
| Date: | 01 17 1917 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Clarence Darrow, signed by Darrow and embossed by photographer Mabel Sykes. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Lt. Frank A. Haskell, adjutant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry. In 1862 Haskell became aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon who commanded the Iron Brigade. Wh... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Ezra S. Carr (1819-1894), one of the first members of the University of Wisconsin faculty as well as a member of the board of regents. |
| Date: | 08 20 1919 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Jeanne Carr, the wife of Ezra S. Carr. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait in front of a painted background of Anna Fox, who married William F. Vilas of Madison, Wisconsin. This photograph was taken in Washi... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor. The only sculptor for whom Lincoln posed, Ream received the controversial commission ... |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke wearing dark dress and coat. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Frederic March as Freddy Bickel, photographed on the steps of his fraternity house when he was president of the 1920 senior class. |
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