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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Carl Schurz wearing suit and spectacles. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| Date: | 07 04 1876 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of "Professor" William H. Noland in costume as leader of the Mock Parade, or "Horribles". He was a barber, musician, chiropodist, and publi... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Formal full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Therese Baird wearing a long, black dress. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Seated oval portrait of Nathaniel Dean (1817-1880). Dean was a prominent early Madison businessman and political leader. He built a cream brick farm hous... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederic King Conover (d. 1919), of Madison, Wisconsin, as a member of the class of 1878 of the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck. |
| Date: | 07 13 1872 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of N.B. Van Slyke at the age of 50 years. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Augustus Dodge, son of Wisconsin's first Territorial Governor, Henry Dodge. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Jeremiah Curtin with a full beard. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Stephen Nicholas (1840-1901) of Chilton, Wisconsin. Stephen was a member of the Narragansett tribe. He served with Co. D, 1st ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Professor Irving Roland. |
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