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| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Photographic reprint of a daguerreotype of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commer... |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Portrait of three generations of McCormicks: (L to R) Emmons Blaine, Jr., (1890-1918), Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), and Anita McCormick Blaine (186... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oshkosh native Helen Farnsworth Mears, age 20, at the time of the unveiling of her sculpture, "Genius of Wisconsin," on display at the southwes... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buildi... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Portrait of J.A. Van Cleve, Regent of the University of Wisconsin who helped supervise the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin buildi... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner in office in Historical Society quarters in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| 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. |
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