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George W. Peck

Date: 1860
Description: Portrait of George W. Peck, 2nd Lieutenant, Company E, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry.
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George W. Peck

Date: 1860
Description: Studio portrait of George W. Peck standing next to a chair.
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Territorial Capitol and Construction of Second Capitol

Date: 1861
Description: Wisconsin Territorial Capitol (first in Madison) viewed from State Street. The back wall of the east wing of the replacement capitol (second on the site) c...
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William H. McIntosh

Date: 08 07 1863
Description: Carte-de-visite of William H. McIntosh, Company F, 22nd Wisconsin Infantry, at the age of 26.
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William Powell

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of William Powell.
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Fred D. Grant

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Fred D. Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, at 15 years of age, standing near a chair in front of a painted backdrop dressed in ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright as a Young Child

Date: 1869
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright as a young child. The photograph was made in McGregor, Iowa, where Wright's father briefly served a Baptist congregation as minister af...
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Newton H. Culver

Date: 04 1862
Description: Portrait of Newton H. Culver, Company C, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, at 23 years of age.
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Harriet Rhoads

Date: 1862
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Harriet Rhoads at the time of her marriage to Lieutenant D.G. Hudson of Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois (1862).
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Charles and Harrie Atwood

Date: 1864
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...
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Sally Blair Fairchild

Date: 1862
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 ...
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Jairus Fairchild

Date: 1862
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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Maria A. Morrison

Date: 1860
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...
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Mrs. Nathaniel Dean

Date: 1860
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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Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1864
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 ...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1865
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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High School

Date: 1860
Description: The first high school erected in Palmyra, built about 1860. People are standing in the yard.
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Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, Geologist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American zoologist, geologist and glaciologist. Founded the Museum of Compa...
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John Gould Anthony, Zoologist

Date: 1863
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of John Gould Anthony (1804-1877), head of the Conchology department at the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1863 until his deat...
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Oliver Marcy, Naturalist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Oliver Marcy (1820-1899), American educator and natural scientist. In 1862, he became professor and chair of the natural histor...

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