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| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Shooting of Charles C.P. Arndt by James Vineyard in the territorial council chamber of the legislature. This depiction of the event was created by the staf... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States, 1845-1849. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, 1850-1853. Fillmore was born in the Finger Lakes country of New Yo... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, 1853-1857. Pierce was born on November 23, 1804 in Hillsboro, New Hampshire and died O... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, 1889-1893. Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, on a farm ne... |
| 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: | 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Augustus Dodge, son of Wisconsin's first Territorial Governor, Henry Dodge. |
| Date: | 11 24 1862 |
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| Description: | Waist-up oval-framed portrait of Luther Hanchett. Hanchett served as a U.S. House of Representative member from 1861-1862 for the 2nd district in Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dwight May Sabin, a Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an oil painting portrait of Franklin Leander Gilson, a lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Painting was made by Robert Schade in 1883, ... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Francis Adams Sr., Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd distr... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Facsimile engraving of Charles Francis Adams Sr., Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd district (1859-1861) and ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of John Q. Adams, a teacher and Republican politician. He was Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Columbia 2... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of David Agry, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Brown County district, 1848-1849. He was a lawyer, jurist, and... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic portrait of Charles Aldrich, a newspaper owner and writer and Free Soil Party member of the Iowa State Assembly from 1860-1882. He se... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithograph of a waist-up portrait of Brevet Brigadier General Thomas Scott Allen. Allen was a Republican member of the Wisconsin State Assembly f... |
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