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WWI Ace

Date: 1918
Description: Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ...
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Shaubena

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Description: A formal portrait of the Potowatomie chief Shaubena or (Shabona) made at Hennepin, Illinois shortly before his death in 1859. Shaubena was a grandnephew o...
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Portrait of Nicholas M. Keeley

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Description: Studio portrait of Nicholas M. Keeley, proprietor of Keeley, Neckerman dry goods store. For many years the store was located at 15 North Pinckney Street.
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Daniel Wells

Date: 1855
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Daniel L. Wells.
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Mandu the Magician

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Description: Doc Mann of Beloit, Wisconsin, who performed novelty entertainment and "top hat magic" as Mandu the magician.
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Father James Groppi

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Father James Groppi.
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James Steele

Date: 10 20 1856
Description: Quarter plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length studio portrait of James Steele sitting in a chair with his arm resting on a table covered with a patterned c...
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Ernst Schmidt

Date: 1912
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of nineteen-year-old Ernst Conrad Schmidt, grandson of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp, and an owner of Black Point Estate. He i...
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Mammie and Kate

Date: 1900
Description: Clara Seipp Bartholomay, a daughter of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp, sitting outdoors in a wicker chair, holding her infant daughter Catherine Bartholomay o...
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John Bascom

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of John Bascom as an elderly man.
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The New Year

Date: 1903
Description: A six-year-old Stuart Fargo is posing for a full length portrait dressed as the "New Year" while standing in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top...
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Boys in Lederhosen

Date: 1910
Description: Two boys, likely members of the extended Brumder family, posing standing and wearing traditional German clothes, including Lederhosen with suspenders, felt...
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Olivia Monona with First Husband

Date: 1915
Description: Olivia Monona sitting in a carriage with her first husband, Clarence Johnson.

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