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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of William Freeman Vilas, attorney, Regent of the University of Wisconsin, member of the State Assembly of Wisconsin 1885, U.S. Senator fro... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill. She is wearing round spectacles. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Major Richard Ira Bong, medal of honor winner from Poplar, Wisconsin. Flying a P-38, Bong shot down more enemy aircraft than any other American... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, Wisconsin, about 1950, with a model of his first speedometer. Even today, most automobiles are equipped with sp... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Daniel Kent Tenney. At 26, he was the youngest member of Madison's common council in 1860 and stayed involved in civic affairs ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Ella Wheeler Wilcox wearing a gown. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James Mallory, Municipal Judge of Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Astronaut Donald K. Slayton of Sparta, Wisconsin. Slayton enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 at age 18 and flew 56 combat missions in B-25s during Worl... |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Lester Maitland, who was a U.S. Army Air Service pilot from Milwaukee who served as aide to General Billy Mitchell during th... |
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| Description: | Mathilda Hughes, wife of Louis Hughes. They were charter members of St. Mark's AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, and she was the first stewardess o... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Halle Steensland seated with his hand inside his suit jacket. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Edward Thomas Owen in suit, with full moustache and beard. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of architect Samuel Hunter Donnell (1824-1861). |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the rain during his presidential reelection campaign. |
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