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Judge Christopher S. Wood

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Judge Christopher S. Wood. Wood fought with General Simon Kenton. Hand coloring on cheeks.
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Elsey Ormsbee Bristol

Date: 1840
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha...
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William Hall

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee.
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Charles Stuart Foster

Date: 1854
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Charles Foster of Monroe, Wisconsin, in suit, vest, tie and stand collar. Hand-coloring on cheeks.
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Unidentified Civil War Soldier

Date: 1861
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 ...
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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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Unidentified Civil War Soldier

Date: 1861
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 ...
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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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Minnie Claire Donnel

Date: 1858
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Minnie Claire Donnel. The portrait is a full figure sitting, turned slightly to the left and looking front, left arm bent and ...
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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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Mrs. Rosellah Smith (Donnel) Bowman

Date: 1854
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Rosellah Smith (Donnel) Bowman. Mrs, Bowman was married to Samuel Hunter Donnel, architect, from 1854 to 1860. Samuel and Rose...
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Charles Krips

Date: 1851
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...
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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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Lieutenant Burnett Demarest

Date: 1861
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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Azel P. Ladd

Date: 1852
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Azel Parkhurst Ladd (1811-1854). Ladd was the Wisconsin state superintendent of public instruction in 1852. Oval-framed quarte...
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Captain Joseph Dickson

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Captain Joseph Dickson, waist-up, facing front and slightly towards the right. Dickson fought in the Black Hawk War in 1832.
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Elijah Swan

Date: 1850
Description: A sixth plate daguerreotype of Elijah Swan. The subject is half length, facing front. He is holding a cane in his right hand, and an unidentified object i...
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Captain Edward Devlin (?)

Date: 1861
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of a Civil War Soldier. Three-quarter length portrait, perhaps Captain Edward Devlin, of Mineral Point, holding a sword. He s...
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Robert Marion La Follette with Brother and Sister

Date: 1858
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Bob La Follette with his brother William and sister Josephine. Bob and Josephine are seated; William is standing between t...

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