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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt. |
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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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| 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: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Reuben Gold Thwaites, second Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Portrait, head and shoulders of Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, scholar, and writer. As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. |
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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 of Judge John Bolivar Cassoday, Chief Justice. |
| Date: | 11 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Chief Justice George R. Currie wearing his black robe. |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length studio portrait of John Myers Olin. lin was a professor of the University of Wisconsin Law School and the president of the Madiso... |
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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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buil... |
| 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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