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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype, waist-up portrait of Rachel Lawe Grignon, daughter of John Lawe and wife of Pierre Bernard Grignon. Wearing heavy bead necklac... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Quarter-plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length portrait of John H. Fonda, settler in the Prairie Du Chien area. He is sitting facing front, with one hand in... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Oshkosh harbor, showing the bridge over the Fox River and several moored sailing vessels. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Mary La Follette and her four children, left to right, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Josephine, William, and (standing) El... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype of a brick structure, possibly in Green Bay, Wisconsin, housing the office of J.S. Baker, Land Agent. The building is three stories... |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype of drawing of Madison's city hall, built in 1857 and located at 2 West Mifflin Street, designed by August Kutzboch, who with Samuel... |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Cornelia Vedder house. A woman is standing on the porch. Described as the house "where George Winnie, a conductor on the... |
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| Description: | View towards front and left side of the First Presbyterian Church. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of E. (Edwin) O. Kimberley wearing a hat and holding a musical instrument in his lap, possibly a trumpet. Kimberley was leader of both the ... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Southeast corner of Second and Sycamore Streets, later the site of a large street railway building. The picture was taken shortly after the interior was d... |
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| Description: | Quarter plate tintype/ferrotype of Lucetta Case (1808-1884). Three-quarter-length seated figure wearing dark dress with white collar, and ribbons in hair, ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of church at 904 E. Knapp St. The belfry tower has a rounded corner turret. Caption reads: "St. Paul's Church, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Peter Larsen in a Civil War uniform holding a firearm. |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Honorable Charles Donohue, Mayor of New Richmond, Wisconsin, and his grandson, Charles III. The elder Donohue was born December 5, 1843 in ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Carl Gustaf Mellberg. |
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| Description: | Ferrotype of "Old Abe," the bald eagle mascot of the 8th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, during the Civil War. The young bird has brown head feathe... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype. Waist-up seated studio portrait of Governor Louis P. Harvey (1820-1862), facing front with torso turned slightly left. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of Colonel Robert Patterson (1753-1827). Patterson was a pioneer settler to both Kentucky and Ohio. He served in ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of General Benjamin Whiteman. Quarter-length portrait of Ben Whiteman wearing a suit and necktie. Whiteman fought with General ... |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype portrait of Colonel Cyrus Marion Butt (b. 1833) of Viroqua. Col. Butt is seated sideways in a chair with one hand in his lap and on... |
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