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| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Wesley Young. Young started the student newspaper, the "Daily Cardinal." He was also the University of Wisco... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of a pastel drawing, formal portrait, waist-up, of Edgar Allen Poe. The drawing was created by Oscar Halling, a little known Baltimore artist ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length sitting portrait of James Strang. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Copy print of a quarter-length daguerreotype portrait of James Jesse Strang. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Jacob Witting, Jr., was born January 15, 1837 in Renhoff, Prussia. He was a soldier in the Iron Brigade during the Civil War. Jacob is posing standing with... |
| 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Publius V. Lawson, of Menasha, standing and leaning against a chair. Portrait was taken when he was a senior at the University ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Harrison Reed. Inscription at bottom of print reads, "Harrison Reed. After 30 years experience, 'a fool among fools.'" |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Elisha Smith sitting. He is wearing a long coat and resting his arm on a table. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Thure Kumlien which was taken at a photography studio in Stoughton. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt at about age 14. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | An illustrated portrait of wilderness guide and mountain man James Bridger. He is wearing a hat and a fringe jacket. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of author Helen Jackson, pen name H.H. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dwight May Sabin, a Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota. |
| Date: | 12 1893 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ellen Clara Sabin, while she was president of Downer College. It is signed: "Affectionately yours, Ella C. Sabin. Xmas, 1893." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Egbert W. Gillett, who wrote Gillett's magic cook book in 1892 and founded the Northwestern Yeast Company in Chicago in 1893.... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of W. K. Gillett, general auditor for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company. |
| 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: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Reverend Harrison Gilliland, around the end of his tenure as President of Galesville University. |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of James Monroe Gillet, around the time he founded the newspaper The Fond du Lac Whig. |
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