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| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length sitting portrait of James Strang. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Jacob Witting, Jr., was born January 15, 1837 in Renhoff, Prussia. He was a soldier in the Iron Brigade during the Civil War. Jacob is posing standing with... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Solomon Freeman wearing a suit and sitting in a chair. Solomon Freeman was a slave purchased by Abraham Bush as a boy. The Bush family moved to... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Publius V. Lawson, of Menasha, standing and leaning against a chair. Portrait was taken when he was a senior at the University ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Harrison Reed. Inscription at bottom of print reads, "Harrison Reed. After 30 years experience, 'a fool among fools.'" |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Elisha Smith sitting. He is wearing a long coat and resting his arm on a table. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Thure Kumlien which was taken at a photography studio in Stoughton. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Egbert W. Gillett, who wrote Gillett's magic cook book in 1892 and founded the Northwestern Yeast Company in Chicago in 1893.... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of W. K. Gillett, general auditor for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Bradford W. Gillett, who was a teacher, shopkeeper, and principal of schools in Middleton, Belleville, and Avoca. He was active... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Reverend Harrison Gilliland, around the end of his tenure as President of Galesville University. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of James Monroe Gillet, around the time he founded the newspaper The Fond du Lac Whig. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an oil painting portrait of Franklin Leander Gilson, a lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Painting was made by Robert Schade in 1883, ... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Portrait of James Monroe Gillet, a lawyer and founder of the Fond du Lac Whig. Caption reads: "James Monroe Gillet, Born April 24, 1821. Married Emm... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Henry Gill, a Madison and Milwaukee attorney, who also served the Wisconsin Central Railroad as tax and insurance expert... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Edward Gilley, an English immigrant and farmer near Cooksville. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of a man seated, with a woman standing next to him. Caption reads: "Rev. Jas. Gillespie & wife. Preached in Necedah over 50 years ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed waist-up portrait of Lars K. Aaker, a Norse immigrant, farmer, Civil War veteran and Minnesota state legislator. He emigrated to the United Sta... |
| Date: | 06 01 1899 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Johan A. ("J.A.") Aalberg, a member of the Typographical Union No. 106, and editor and publisher of The Madison l... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch portrait of Edwin Austin Abbey, a muralist, illustrator, and painter. He began painting a series of murals for the Pennsylvania State Capitol... |
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