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| Date: | 06 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Confederate Lieutenant Colonel John Harrell of Harrell's Battalion in the Arkansas Cavalry. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee. |
| Date: | 02 26 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of General Robert E. Lee. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Captain George Henry Preble. Starting in 1861 Preble commanded the gunboat Katahdin, serving with Rear Admiral... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Old Abe, the Wisconsin war eagle on a perch. The adolescent bird still has partially brown head feathers. The card appears to have a s... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of a stuffed bald eagle, purportedly, Old Abe. There is a flag at the left and at the bottom is written "The Eagel [sic] o... |
| Date: | 02 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite Centennial portrait "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, by J.M. Fowler, sold by J.O. Barrett in Philadelphia, Pennsylvan... |
| Date: | 02 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite Centennial portrait of "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, by J.M. Fowler, sold by J.O. Barrett in Philadelphia, Pennsyl... |
| Date: | 02 07 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite Centennial portrait of "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Regiment, by J.M. Fowler, sold by J.O. Barrett in Philadelphia, Pennsyl... |
| 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: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype oval waist-up portrait of an African American woman in a striped shirtwaist with white collar and waistband, wearing earrings and a cameo... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype of a child sitting on a bench wearing a white dress and shoes. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Tintype of Alexander Simplot, sitting, and his wife, standing, who is wearing a fashionable hat and coat and holding a fur muff. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype waist-up oval portrait of an African American man wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and partially buttoned vest. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of architect Frank Lloyd Wright as a young boy. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of young George Hawthorne Scidmore standing with his hand on a newel post, and holding a hat in his other hand. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Morris Hillquit. |
| Date: | 03 1869 |
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| Description: | Engraved image of a man riding an American Improved Velocipede. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sherwin Gillett (b. 1879) when he was a baby. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of a small child sitting in a chair. |
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