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Rutted Dirt Road

Date: 1898
Description: Cabinet card of a deeply rutted dirt road, which leads to buildings in the background. Fences are visible on both sides. This image was entered in a 1898 c...
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Richard Ely

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Richard Ely.
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Eldai Smith

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Description: Head and shoulders vignetted studio portrait of Eldai Smith, an early settler in Racine.
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Harriet Smith

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Description: Head and shoulders vignetted studio portrait of Harriet Smith, wife of Eldai Smith, an early settler in Racine.
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Harlow M. Waller

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of Harlow Waller standing and wearing a star-shaped medal and and embroidered ceremonial collar over his suit. He is p...
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Edward Singleton Holden

Date: 1881
Description: Cabinet card portrait of Edward Holden seated with his legs crossed.
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Fred Pabst

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Description: Head and shoulders semi-profile vignetted portrait of Fred Pabst.
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Fritz Rasmussen

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Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Fritz William Rasmussen.
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Dousman and Sturgis Studio Portrait

Date: 1873
Description: Nina Lynn Sturgis and Hercules Louis Dousman pose together in a studio in front of a painted backdrop. Hercules is wearing a suit and is seated with his ar...
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Charles Schmidt

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Dr. Charles Schmidt (Sherwin Gillett's wife's cousin). He is standing next to a prop fence and his h...
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The State Bank

Date: 1885
Description: External view of the State Bank, the first bank in Madison. A group of men are posed along the sidewalk in front.
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Studio Portrait of a Young Child

Date: 1900
Description: Cabinet posed studio portrait of a young child with a toy in hand and formal dress.
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Amelia Bright Williams Studio Portrait

Date: 1880
Description: Cabinet studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Amelia Bright Williams, second wife of Chauncey Williams.
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Portrait of Two Men

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Description: Formal full-length portrait of two men dressed in suits and hats. One man, wearing a necktie, is seated in a chair, and the other man, wearing a bow tie, i...
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Listers Agricultural Chemical Works Card

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Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a woman in a bonnet holding a rectangular parasol. Text at bottom reads: "Pure Animal Bone Fertilizer."
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Moss-haired Girl

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Description: Woman coiffed as a "moss-haired girl" or a "Circassian beauty." A literary tradition exists for the Circassian beauties, but in the United States they achi...
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Jessie Jack Hooper

Date: 1885
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Jessie Jack Hooper.
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Fritz Rasmussen

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Fritz W. Rasmussen.
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Fancy Pigeon

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Description: A fancy pigeon poses on a plinth with its breast high and tail fanned. It is unclear if it is living or taxidermy.
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Charles Ilsley

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Charles Ferdinand Ilsley, who with his partner Samuel Marshall, established a bank in Milwaukee, incorporated in 1888....

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