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| 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... |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
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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: | 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: | 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. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| 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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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Clara Bewick Colby in a long, black skirt, holding a book. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Mrs. Margarethe Meyer Schurz, the first kindergarten teacher in the United States. Caption reads: "Mrs. Carl Schurz First Ki... |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait showing Carl Schurz seated and Margarethe [Meyer] Schurz, (Mrs. Carl Schurz) posed standing next to him. |
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| Description: | Cased image of Anson Dart, first settler on Green Lake, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Richard Ely seated in a chair wearing a suit and pince-nez. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of William F. Vilas posing with one hand on a law book and the other inside his long overcoat. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Formal full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Therese Baird wearing a long, black dress. |
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