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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of geologist Charles Whittlesey dressed for a field trip. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Asaph Whittlesey dressed for his journey from Ashland to Madison, Wisconsin, to take up his seat in the state legislature. Whittlesey is attired for the lo... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Mary Davidson Bradford, a high school teacher. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Seated oval portrait of Nathaniel Dean (1817-1880). Dean was a prominent early Madison businessman and political leader. He built a cream brick farm hous... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Eliab Dean, (b. 1819 - d. 1900) an early Madison businessman. Dean came to Madison in the 1840s to work for his cousin, ... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908), Civil War and United States Senator, taken while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Full-length, carte-de-visite portrait of John H. Lathrop (1799-1866), first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Lathrop's tenure was marked by contr... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lu... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the family of Dr. Joseph Hobbins of Madison: Sarah Badger Jackson Hobbins holding her daughter Alice Russell Hobbins (1853-1926), Sarah Ellen H... |
| Date: | 05 30 1851 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a young Horace Palmer in uniform. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th... |
| 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: | 07 14 1861 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Halbert Eleazer Paine. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Augustus Dodge, son of Wisconsin's first Territorial Governor, Henry Dodge. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Frank A. Haskell, who was a Colonel in the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin's Volunteer Infantry. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of Jeremiah Curtin wearing gloves. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Jeremiah Curtin with a full beard. |
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