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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of George W. Peck, 2nd Lieutenant, Company E, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Te-He-Do-Ne-Cha (One Who Forbids His House) of the Sioux tribe. He was a warrior who was executed at Mankato for his involvement in the Massacr... |
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| Description: | The congregation of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), American paleontologist. Meek became the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles A. White (1826-1910), an American geologist and paleontologist. White was the State geologist of Iowa in 1866-70, and a... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Captain P.W. Plummer of the 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio wedding portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) and Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) in their wedding outfits. Ku... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Francis Adams Sr., Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 3rd distr... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of John Q. Adams, a teacher and Republican politician. He was Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Columbia 2... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of William W. Albers, a Democratic politician and businessman. This image is from the time he was a student at the ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1867 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Nicolaevitch Alexander, who ruled as Emperor of Russia from 1855 until his assassination in 1881. Alex... |
| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Carl Ferdinand Allen, a Danish historian and professor. He was the author of De Tre Nordiske Rigers Historie, 1497-1536, Haand... |
| Date: | 02 03 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of a vignetted portrait of a man. It is signed: "Yours truly, A.F. Allen. Feb. 3rd 1869." |
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