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Thornton N. Wilder

Date: 1949
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses.
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Nina Sturgis Dousman

Date: 1870
Description: Portrait of Nina Sturgis Dousman, wife of H. Louis Dousman.
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Edwin H. Blashfield

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edwin H. Blashfield, American mural painter and mosaic artist, whose work can be seen at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Whe...
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NASA Parasev

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Description: Astronaut Neil Armstrong (right), the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon, with Tom Poberezny, the son of EAA founder Paul Poberezny and the presi...
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John Nuwi

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Description: Three-quarter length formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Nuwi, a Mascouten (or Prairie) Potawatomi, who lived at Skunk Hill in Wood Coun...
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Aleksendra Zukowska

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of Aleksendra Zukowska, a Russian Pole who was a machine hand at an International Harvester Twine Mill, probably in Chicago.
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Samuel Sterling Sherman, Educator

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Description: Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren...
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Gloria Ray, One of the Little Rock Nine

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: Portrait of Gloria Ray, one of the Little Rock Nine.
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Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1928
Description: Portrait of Edwin Witte, chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service from 1922-1933.

While the executive director of the President's Committee o...

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Jeremiah Rusk

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Jeremiah, copied from an original by Curtiss.
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Woman Holding Small Girl on Her Lap

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Description: A woman wearing a hat, blouse, and long skirt sits in profile in a studio with a small girl wearing a white dress on her lap. They are in front of a studio...
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Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Gilbert M. Simmons Public Library. The library opened in 1900 and was funded with a gift of $150,000 from G.M. Simmons. Through a larg...
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Harry Haywood

Date: 12 1984
Description: Harry Haywood, seated at the left, one of the leading American communists, at the holiday party of the "Guardian" newspaper, the year before his death. Abe...
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Generals Fairchild, Bragg, and Gibbon of the Iron Brigade

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait of General Lucius Fairchild, General E.S. Bragg, and General John Gibbon, all of the Iron Brigade. All three men wear an unidentified ribbo...
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Canning Chicken

Date: 05 1924
Description: Helen Holden using a pair of tongs to remove a can of chicken from a metal container on Holden Poultry Farm.
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Portrait of Anna Chapman

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Description: Portrait of Anna Chapman, later Anna Chapman Dunn (Mrs. Merrill).
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Peter W. Chantland

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders cabinet card portrait of Peter W. Chantland, a second lieutenant in Company E, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following informat...
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Ole Everson Luten and Andrew Ellickson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of (right) Ole Everson Luten [as on the photograph backing; also written as Ole Everson on...
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Governor Earl

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Description: Anthony Earl, Governor of Wisconsin, seated in a folding chair with his arms crossed.
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Campaign for Vice President

Date: 09 26 1980
Description: Former Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey, together with Mrs. Lucey, campaigning for vice president on John Anderson's National Unity ticket. They are bot...

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