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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Frederick Layton, at about age 50. Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher and ran the business until his retirement... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | This map shows wards, roads, railroads, lot and block numbers, subdivisions, parks, some landownership, and a race course. Manuscript annotations in red in... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | This map shows wards, sections, roads, lot and block numbers, subdivisions, and proposed streets. The inside cover includes hand written annotations that r... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a deck of a schooner hauling lumber. Several workmen are loading or unloading the lumber. Industrial buildings, some displaying signs, are... |
| Date: | 06 18 1873 |
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| Description: | Front page of the inaugural issue of Milwaukee German language newspaper Germania. |
| Date: | 05 1878 |
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| Description: | George Brumder, in a three-piece suit and wearing pince-nez eyeglasses, is sitting in a swivel chair at a roll top desk. His unidentified secretary is sitt... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Metcalf, in costume as Iphigenia from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Taur... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Alice Tobey, in costume as Joan of Arc from Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans). |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Frank Cramer, in costume as Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of S.C. Gilbert, in costume as Don Caesar from Friedrich Schiller's play The Bride of Messina (Die Braut von Messina... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, in costume as Mephistopheles from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Sidney Hauxhurst, in costume as Kalaf, prince of Astrakhan from Friedrich Schiller's play Turandot (Turandot, Prinzes... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lillian Carpenter, in costume as Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wil... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgiana Yates Cramer ("Mrs. Jno L Cramer," according to caption), in costume as Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Sc... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of William Grant Fitch, in costume. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, in costume. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Henry Liljencrantz, in costume as Wilhelm Meister from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine F. Sherwood, in costume as Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea. |
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