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Thornton N. Wilder

Date: 1949
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses.
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Frank A. Haskell

Date: 1862
Description: Lt. Frank A. Haskell, adjutant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry. In 1862 Haskell became aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon who commanded the Iron Brigade. Wh...
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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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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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Osage Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Black Bow's wife, with infant in a papoose, and Saucy Chief's squaw.
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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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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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Herman and Lewis Gudmundsen

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Herman and Lewis Gudmundsen from Dunkirk, Wisconsin. They enlisted into Company A, 23rd Wisconsin Infantry, on August 15, ...
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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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Studio Portrait of Seated Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American man posed sitting. He has his right ankle crossed over his left leg at the ...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American man posed sitting. He is wearing a dark-colored suit coat, vest, and striped n...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a panted backdrop of a European American woman posed sitting in a wooden chair. She is wearing a plaid skirt and light-colored ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American woman posed standing with her right hand on the back of a chair covered w...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified European American woman posed sitting on a cloth-covered chair with her hands clasped in her lap. She is wearing a light...

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