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Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1885
Description: Formal studio portrait of Belle Case La Follette wearing a black lace dress. This photograph was taken about 1885, the year in which her husband, Robert M....
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Henry Ford

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Henry Ford.
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General Ulysses S. Grant

Date: 1861
Description: Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform.
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John Pierpont (J.P.) Morgan

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of banker and philanthropist, J.P. Morgan.
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Stanley Robert McCormick

Date: 1904
Description: Portrait of Stanley Robert McCormick (1874-1947), son of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884).
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Edward Salomon

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Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Edward Salomon wearing a suit and tie.
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Door in Hawks Tavern

Date: 1920
Description: Interior door in Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn.
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World War I Soldier

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Description: Gus Sharlow, a Native American Indian World War I soldier from Hayward, Wisconsin.
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Robert K. Beecham

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Description: Robert K. Beecham studio portrait in front of a painted background, at age 26. In the book "As If It Were Glory," Robert Beecham recounts his Civil War exp...
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Girl Standing in Snow

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of a young girl, clothed in a winter coat, bonnet, and muff, with fake snow on the ground and falling all around her.
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Vel Phillips

Date: 02 07 1953
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Vel Rodgers Phillips.
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Novak Reading Newspaper

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Description: Journalist Robert Novak catching up on the news.
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Holocaust Survivor, Harry Gordon

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Description: Harry Gordon was born in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, on July 15, 1925. He was the only child of an Orthodox Jewish family with deep roots in Lithuania. In t...
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Hosea Rood

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Hosea Rood.
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Anders G. Urness

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Description: Waist-up oval studio portrait of Anders G. Urness [as written on portrait backing; also written as Anders G. Urnces on the published Roster of Wisconsin Vo...
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Forest Middleton in Navy Uniform

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length portrait of Forest Middleton in a World War I era Navy uniform.
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Michael Olbrich

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Michael B. Olbrich.
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Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1922
Description: A studio portrait of Edwin Witte as a young man.
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Daniel W. Hoan

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Daniel W. Hoan.
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David R. Obey

Date: 2000
Description: Official portrait of Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey.

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