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| Date: | 1852 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length engraving portrait of Thomas Jefferson painted by G. Stuart and engraved by J.C. Buttre. From "The History of Democracy in the United States... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Elizabeth Mears, also known as Nellie Wildwood. |
| 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: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of geologist Charles Whittlesey dressed for a field trip. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908), Civil War and United States Senator, taken while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Full-length, carte-de-visite portrait of John H. Lathrop (1799-1866), first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Lathrop's tenure was marked by contr... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the family of Dr. Joseph Hobbins of Madison: Sarah Badger Jackson Hobbins holding her daughter Alice Russell Hobbins (1853-1926), Sarah Ellen H... |
| Date: | 05 30 1851 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cassius Fairchild of Madison, the eldest son of Jairus Fairchild, about 1859. At this time he assumed responsibility for a large part of the fa... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Harrison Ludington, the future 13th governor of Wisconsin (left) and Talbot C. Dousman (right). They are both wearing top hats and suits. They ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval-framed portrait of John Bascom at the age of 28. |
| 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: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Engraved waist-up portrait of Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 1801-1825. Caption reads: "Alexander 1. Emperor of Russia. On steel by John Sartain - Phil. Fo... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Vignetted waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Pliney [some sources spell it "Pliny"] Alford, a riverboat captain on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drug store in Milwaukee. He is sitting in a chair, with a dog resting at his fe... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length semi profile portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturing ... |
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