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| Description: | "The Spirit of the Northwest," a sculpture by Sidney Bedore which features a missionary, an explorer, and a Native American. |
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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: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card created by Wisconsin artist Alfred A. Sessler. The image is of Santa Claus (in the Sessler style) holding a bag of snow in one hand and a smal... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Holiday card of a trainload of skiers with their skis on their way to the slopes. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, poses in a rocking chair with her hands behind her head. She wears a fancy dress and high buttoned shoes. The... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | One of Wisconsin's native orchids, Cypripedium acaule, or pink lady slipper. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jane Pepper (played by Irene Hunt) is a reporter for "The Daily Mail." She sits at her typewriter while a group of six men talk behind her back in this sce... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jane Pepper (played by Irene Hunt), a reporter for "The Daily Mail," turns around at her typewriter desk to overhear a conversation in the newsroom. Frank ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | The actor Vester Pegg is reaching to shake the hand of Charles Lee (playing Mr. Pepper). Pepper's son and daughter watch (Jack Conway and Irene Hunt) in th... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jane Pepper (played by Irene Hunt) and her brother (Jack Conway) are talking as their father (Charles Lee) sits at his desk. In the background is actor Ves... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Anita Stewart wears a dress made of burlap playing Olympia in the Vitagraph production "The Wood Violet" (1912). |
| 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 a painting of General Josiah Harmar. General Harmar fought for the United States against Native Americans in the 1780's and ... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Irvine. The portrait shows General Irvine in his military uniform. General Irvine served as a ... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Lieutenant Albert Lamson, taken at Falmouth, Virginia. Lamson is posed, in military uniform, seated and holding a sword ... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate full-length military portrait of Harlow Milton Waller, facing forward with right hand holding his sword at his side. The portrait is hand tin... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Spurred by passion, actor Carl Harbaugh (aka Carl Harbough) has Lucille Young backed up against a piano in a scene still for "The Artist's Wife." |
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