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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A woman, child, dog, and group of men are gathered around a harvester in a field. The caption reads: "Harvester History. Harvest of 1903. Jones Lever Bin... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of Mr. William W. Hendricks, a Black River Falls barber, dressed in his best, posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Abel Dunning (1811-1881), one of the first farmers to take up residence in Dane County and the brother of prominent pharmacist Philo Dunning. |
| Date: | 08 11 1910 |
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| Description: | The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ... |
| Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A man in a field gathering long stalks of hemp into a bundle. The hemp was used to produce binder twine. |
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| Description: | Casual portrait of Leo Huberman, founder and co-editor of the socialist "Monthly Review". |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card portrait of Edward Holden seated with his legs crossed. |
| Date: | 10 25 1940 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite with a photograph of a painting by James R. Stuart. It depicts two white-haired, bearded shoemakers, with Langford on the left and his part... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length, formal studio portrait of George S. Parker of Janesville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of a pastel drawing, formal portrait, waist-up, of Edgar Allen Poe. The drawing was created by Oscar Halling, a little known Baltimore artist ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Edward Gilley, an English immigrant and farmer near Cooksville. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Hattibel [Harriet Bell] Merrill, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelors of Sci... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as w... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph Adams, a roundhouse foreman and master mechanic for the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway line. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length semi-profile carte-de-visite portrait of Walter G. Adams, a mechanic from Sandwich, IL. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed, waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a biologist and geologist known for his studies of Earth's natural history. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite profile portrait of Levi Alden, founder of the Janesville Gazette and later an editor of the Madison State Journal. He was a ... |
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