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| Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
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| Description: | Charles McCarthy seated at a desk with a telephone in front of him. |
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| Description: | Charles McCarthy writing at his desk in his office. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Madison admirers gather around Charles Lindbergh upon his arrival in the city. This photograph is believed to have been taken in 1928 when Lindbergh return... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Ezra S. Carr (1819-1894), one of the first members of the University of Wisconsin faculty as well as a member of the board of regents. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of George Byron Merrick (1841-1931) of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
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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: | 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: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Crowd greeting the "Spirit of St. Louis" when Charles Lindbergh flew to Madison on August 22, 1927. The crowd at Pennco Field (Royal Airport)was so large ... |
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