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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragist and peace advocate, holding an American flag. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
| 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: | 08 20 1919 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of Jeanne Carr, the wife of Ezra S. Carr. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Richard Ely seated in a chair wearing a suit and pince-nez. |
| Date: | 11 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Chief Justice George R. Currie wearing his black robe. |
| 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: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | General William "Billy" Mitchell posing next to an airplane wearing flight gear. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall. After World War II President Truman appointed Marshall as his special emissary to Chi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), wife of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), late in life. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | James Reeve Stuart in his studio, with paintings. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk. |
| Date: | 02 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison in his lab where he worked on his "talking moving machine." |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Richard M. Nixon and his family during the 1952 presidential election campaign when he was the running mate in Dwight D. Eisenhower's suc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Richard M. Nixon, seated, at four years of age, wearing a sailor suit and Dutch-boy haircut. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Woodrow Wilson taken early in his first term as president. |
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