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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Darst Conover, the first wife of University of Wisconsin faculty member, Obadieh M. Conover. She died in Madis... |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Esther Green Smilie Vilas (born ca. 1819), the wife of Levi B. Vilas, a prominent Madison businessman, and the mother of... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite full-length studio portrait of Charles David and Harrie Farwell Atwood, the sons of David Atwood of Madison, Wisconsin. They are posed on a... |
| 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: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sally Blair Fairchild, the wife of Jairus Fairchild, the first mayor of Madison, and the mother of Lucius, Cassius, Charles Fairchild, and Sarah Fairchild ... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lu... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha W. Keyes (1828-1910) a prominent Madison attorney who was appointed Madison postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From ... |
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| Description: | George B. Smith (1823-1879), Democratic politician, former mayor of Madison (elected 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1878), and a prominent attorney who specialized... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Eugenia Weed Smith, the wife of George B. Smith, a former mayor of Madison, prominent Democratic party leader, and attorney. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Maria A. Morrison, born Maria Amelia Hickox in 1800, the wife of Wisconsin pioneer James Morrison. With her husband, Mrs... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Morrison Dean, the wife of Nathaniel Dean of Madison. Mrs. Dean was born in Dodgeville in 1829, moved to Ma... |
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| Description: | John Bordner and another man standing with a team of six horses. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Charles H. Bassett of Company E of the 16th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Lucius Fairchild in Madison, probably after the loss of his arm at Gettysburg. This portrait can be dated as ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Menard Monument was erected in honor of Pere Rene Menard who was lost in the area in 1661 while en route to Huron Village to baptize Native Americans. ... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Captain P.W. Plummer of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. A handwritten note on the photograph reads: "Killed in the Wilderness". |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick holding a top hat (1809-1884), by Matthew Brady. McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Clement E. Warner, 36th Wisconsin Infantry. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Keyes steam engine undergoing routine testing in front of Madison's old Central Fire Station, 10 South Webster Street. The water is being drawn from a cist... |
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