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Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Leonard J. Farwell, Governor of Wisconsin 1852-54. Quarter length facing left, wearing full beard, coat, vest, tie, and white ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of an oval-shaped pendant with a portrait of General Daniel Brodhead (October 1736-November 1809) of Pennsylvania. General Brodhe... |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Frederick Moessner wearing a fireman's hat for Madison Engine Co. No. 2. He was one of the original members of Madison Fire Co... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brady of Virginia, son of Captain Samuel Brady. Half-length, facing front with torso turned slightly to right. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype waist-up portrait of Van Swearingen Brady of Ohio, son of Captain Samuel Brady. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up seated portrait of Col. John Johnston. Johnston is pictured here as an elderly man; however, he is remembered in Wi... |
| Date: | 09 1855 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Samuel Donalson, 1767-1860, around the age of 90, sitting and holding a cane. Mr. Donalson was an early set... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype, Quarter-length portrait of Josiah Ficklin. Hand coloring on cheeks. Ficklin was from Lexington, Kentucky, and one of the defende... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Captain James Ward. Ward was from Mason County, Kentucky, and a compatriot o... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of Colonel Robert Weakley. Col. Weakley served as a Representative from Tennessee; born in Halifax County, Va., Jul... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Quarter-length portrait of Isaiah Boone. Mr. Boone is holding a cane in his hand. Boone was from Indiana. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Judge Christopher S. Wood. Wood fought with General Simon Kenton. Hand coloring on cheeks. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee. |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Charles Foster of Monroe, Wisconsin, in suit, vest, tie and stand collar. Hand-coloring on cheeks. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of an unidentified soldier from the 13th Wisconsin Infantry. Hand-coloring on cheeks and gold details on buttons of military ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate tintype/ferrotype portrait of an unidentified soldier from the 13th Wisconsin Infantry. The man is seated with his arm draped over the back of ... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Charles Krips. Charles Krips was the uncle of the donor of the portrait, Mrs. Julia Hicks. The portrait is a bust figure, faci... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Burnett Demarest, a First Lieutenant in the Wisconsin 8th infantry, Co. C. Demarest mustered into service in 1861 at Eau C... |
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