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| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Lansing A. Wilcox — last Civil War veteran in Wisconsin — with a group of men at his 105th birthday. The birthday party was held at the G... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Handwritten caption reads: "Sole Survivors, Class of 1866. U.S. Military Academy. Fiftieth Anniversary of Graduation." Twelve men are lined up in two rows ... |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter profile portrait of World War II veteran, Baptist minister, and civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy, the 2nd President of the Southern Chri... |
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| Description: | Close-up photograph of James George Abourezk, a Korean War veteran and Democratic politician from South Dakota. Abourezk was a member of the US House of Re... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Harvey R. Abraham, World War I veteran and Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Winnebago County district, 1947-1960. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Republican State Assembly members Bob Matheson and Harvey Abraham (with a third, unidentified person) standing on a dock. Abraham is hold... |
| Date: | 09 19 1958 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Harvey R. Abraham, a World War I veteran and Republican Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Winnebago County distric... |
| Date: | 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Harvey R. Abraham, a State Assembly Republican. He is seated at a table with a younger man, identified as "Ted [or Jed] Sanborn, Minneapolis, Minn." Captio... |
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| Description: | Two men are seated together. The man on the left is George J. Talsky, a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, 1957-1960. The man on the right ... |
| Date: | 05 1959 |
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| Description: | Three men pose together around a wood desk. They are identified as (from left): Harvey Abraham, Gil Hipke, and [Everett] Cy Bidwell. All three were Republi... |
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| Description: | Four men stand together, looking at a booklet entitled "Oshkosh: Wisconsin's City of Opportunity." They are (from left): Governor Walter Kohler, Connie Car... |
| Date: | 04 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Three men are seated, and four are standing. Governor Vernon Thompson is signing Assembly Bill 26-A. Those present are: (Seated, left to right) Vernon W. T... |
| Date: | 02 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sherman Adams, World War I Marine Corps veteran, Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 2nd district (1945... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of Charles Francis Adams Jr., a Union Army veteran of the Civil War, a business reformer as part of the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Chester Allen, a World War I veteran and educator with the University of Wisconsin Extension. Dr. Allen was a lifelong crusader for education p... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Daniel Allender, of Northport. He was identified in 1909 as the first white boy born in Milwaukee, on April 14, 1838... |
| Date: | 09 1966 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of George Allott a Republican politician from Colorado. Allott served in World War II as a major in the US Army Air Forces. He was ... |
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