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| 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: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was born on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, and di... |
| 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: | 04 27 1891 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, with Mrs. Harrison and a group of men and women on the parapet of Sutro Heights, San Francisco,... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner in office in Historical Society quarters in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Gilbert Roe, Madison attorney and partner in the firm La Follette, Harper, Roe, seated in his office in the second floor of the Fairchild Block at 29 East ... |
| Date: | 12 1898 |
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| Description: | Attorney Albert G. Zimmerman in his Madison law office, dictating a letter to secretary Jennie Nelson. Until 1894 Zimmerman was the law partner of Robert ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joseph H. Osborn, a leader in cooperative and Grange movements. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Byron Paine wearing a suit. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of John Bascom. |
| Date: | 01 08 1898 |
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| Description: | The last photograph taken of Frances Willard, a leader in the temperance movement and women's activist in the Methodist church. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of John Commons posing in front of a lace curtain with his hands in his pockets. This may have been taken while he was at Syracuse Universi... |
| 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: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the best known leaders of the women's suffrage movement who had strong ties to the North Country and who o... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Mary Davidson Bradford, a high school teacher. |
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