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William C. Webb

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of William Webb.
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Miss T.B. McCafferty

Date: 1870
Description: Vignetted quarter-length head and shoulders portrait of a woman.
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Mary Lambert Allen

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of Mary Lambert Allen. She is turned toward the left, and is wearing a dark-colored lace shawl over a light-colored dr...
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Unidentified Woman

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Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of a woman. She is wearing earrings, a dress with fringe at the shoulders, and a tiara. She has a pompadour hairstyle w...
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Unidentified Woman

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Description: Portrait of a woman sitting next to lace-curtained window. She is wearing a hat with a large brim and a long coat. She has a glove on one hand, which is on...
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Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

Date: 1873
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt at about age 14.
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Bradford W. Gillett

Date: 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Bradford W. Gillett, who was a teacher, shopkeeper, and principal of schools in Middleton, Belleville, and Avoca. He was active...
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Thomas Henry Gill

Date: 1877
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Henry Gill, a Madison and Milwaukee attorney, who also served the Wisconsin Central Railroad as tax and insurance expert...
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Mrs. A. M. Abbott

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of a woman. Caption reads: "To Miss Stewart. With compliments, Of Mrs A M Abbott."
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Emma Abbott

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length semi-profile carte-de-visite portrait of opera singer Emma Abbott as a youth. Caption reads: "To my darling little mother."
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Luthera H. Adams

Date: 1874
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Luthera H. Adams, a Mathematics instructor at Ripon College.
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George Adamson

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of George Adamson, a farmer and nephew of Harriet Lucinda Adamson Fox.
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King Alfonso XII and Queen Maria de las Mercedes

Date: 1925
Description: Oval framed quarter-length profile carte-de-visite portrait of Alfonso XII and Maria de las Mercedes, the King and Queen of Spain.
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Edward P. Allis

Date: 1875
Description: Carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturi...
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Margaret Marie Watson Allis

Date: 1848
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Margaret Marie Watson Allis, wife of Edward P. Allis.
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Date: 1870
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Lawrence [Lourens] Alma-Tadema, a Dutch-born, British painter known for depictions of Roman life painted in the Academ...
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Reverend Ole Amble

Date: 1872
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Ole Amble, a Norwegian immigrant and Lutheran pastor, taken around the time he was a seminarian at Augsburg S...

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