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Anna Gourlay

Date: 01 25 1864
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Anna Martin Gourlay (1858-1864). She is seated, facing forward, wearing a short-sleeved dress, and holding a doll...
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Ambrotype Portrait of Man and Woman

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Description: A pair of sixth plate ambrotype waist-up portraits of an unidentified man and woman. In each portrait the subject is seated with the left hand on the lap a...
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Unidentified Civil War Soldier

Date: 1861
Description: Sixth plate tintype/ferrotype of an unidentified soldier from the 13th Wisconsin Infantry. He is sitting in a chair holding a horn in his right hand. Hand-...
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Mary Oaks

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Mary Oaks. She is seated in a chair with one arm draped over the back and the other hand in her lap. She wears a long neck...
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Charles Minton Baker and Elizabeth Holt Baker

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Description: Two sixth plate ambrotypes of Charles Minton Baker, (on left) (1804-1872) and his second wife, (on right) Elizabeth Holt Baker. Baker lived in Lake Geneva,...
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Charles Minton Baker

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Charles Minton Baker. Baker was a lawyer, politician, b. New York City. He attended Middlebury College, Vt., studied law, ...
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Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne

Date: 1856
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne. Daughter of Charles Minton Baker of Lake Geneva. Taken in New York before her family jour...
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Julia Smith

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Julia Smith. She is sitting with one arm resting on a cloth covered table and the other hand in her lap holding a small bouque...
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Samuel Hunter Donnel

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Samuel Hunter Donnel. He is sitting with his hands in his lap and is wearing a formal suit with vest and top hat. Samuel Hunte...
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Elizabeth Waddy Noyes

Date: 1855
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Elizabeth Waddy Noyes, wife of Charles Cowper Noyes and mother of William Brayton Noyes. Waist-up portrait. She is sitting sid...
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Louise Noyes

Date: 1860
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Louise Noyes, sister of William B. Noyes. The portrait is a half figure, seated subject looking directly front, right elbow re...
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George Krips

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of George Krips of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. George is the uncle of the donor of the portrait, Mrs. Julia Hicks. The portrait i...
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Betsy Smith with Daughter Laura and Son George

Date: 1846
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Betsy H. Smith, left, with her daughter, Laura, right,and son, George. The three are the mother, sister and brother of Rosella...
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Tillie Baker and Anna Matilda Baker

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Tillie (Feb. 22, 1849-1864) and Anna Matilda Baker, possibly twins. Seated full figures with matching off-the-shoulder dresses, ne...
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Mrs. William B. Noyes

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Mrs. William B. Noyes, first wife of William B. Noyes. Seated three-quarter figure facing front and slightly left, arms folded. Sh...
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S.S. Pratt with Wife and Sons Phineas and Marcus

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of S.S. Pratt, his wife, and their two sons, Marcus on the right, and Phineus Warren on the left. Pratt and his wife are seated half ...
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William B. Noyes and First Wife

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of William B. Noyes and his first wife. Two seated half figures facing front. Noyes wears a bow tie with long tail, and his wife wear...
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Jane Sweeney Oakley with Infant George Walter Oakley

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Jane Sweeney Oakley with infant George Walter Oakley. Seated half figure facing front, torso to right, wearing dress with whit...
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Harriet Sweeney Hough

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Harriet Sweeney Hough. Seated half figure facing front and to the right, wearing long-sleeved printed dress with small white l...
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Woman, Probably Mary Oakley Hough

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of an unidentified woman, probably Mary Oakley Hough. Half figure facing front and slightly left, with right elbow resting on a s...

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