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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, 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: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Lyman Copeland Draper. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner in office in Historical Society quarters in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Byron Paine wearing a suit. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of George B. Delaplaine (1814-1895), of Madison, Wisconsin. Delaplaine arrived in Madison in 1838 after having worked in... |
| Date: | 03 04 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ole Torgerson on his 70th birthday. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert B. (Alice Russell Hobbins) Porter posing for a waist-up formal portrait. She is wearing a light-colored lace dress with a lace headpiece. She i... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, the 15th governor of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length, formal studio portrait of George S. Parker of Janesville, Wisconsin. |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Thure Kumlien which was taken at a photography studio in Stoughton. |
| 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: | 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: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Laura L. Miller, who graduated from Sparta High School in 1887, attended U.W. Madison, and became an educator a... |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Kendall Adams, president of Cornell University (1885-1892), and of the University of Wisconsin (1892-1901). |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl... |
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