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| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Photograph from an original painting of Colonel William (Billy) Stephen Hamilton, M. Smith Photography in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Son of Revolutionary War hero ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Martha and Notley Henderson with their three children. Their son Allen is standing. The Hendersons were e... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, during his first term. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Lyman Copeland Draper. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936). Mr. McCormick was the oldest son of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). He was ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | McCormick family group portrait at Island Lake Camp in Northwestern Wisconsin, owned by Dr. William C. Gray (editor of "The Interior") and the McCormicks. ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers are marching to meet the President and crowds are watching ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Grover Cleveland around the time he first took office as president of the United States. |
| Date: | 10 07 1887 |
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| Description: | Military parade on Main Street honoring President Grover Cleveland's visit to Madison. Soldiers of the University Battalion are marching on West Main Stree... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Philetus Sawyer, congressman, U.S. Senator, and Oshkosh lumber baron (1816-1900). During the 1880s and 1890s Sawyer was one of a small group of conservati... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joseph H. Osborn, a leader in cooperative and Grange movements. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of John Bascom. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Reverend William Streissguth (1827-1915). Streissguth, a native of Lahr, Germany, trained at the Baseler Missionhaus and was sent by the Refor... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke seated, surrounded by flowers and plants. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Thure Kumlien at his work table in the Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien is surrounded by taxidermied birds and is at work stuffing another. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card portrait of Edward Holden seated with his legs crossed. |
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