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Portrait of Samuel Marshall

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Description: Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank.
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Thomas Jefferson

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Description: Quarter-length engraving of Thomas Jefferson.
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Abraham Lincoln

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Description: Three-quarter length seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln

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Description: A full-length seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the form of a print from the "likeness of a photograph."
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George Washington

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Description: Full-length portrait engraving of George Washington seated with books and saber, from a painting by Chappel.
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James Madison

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Description: Portrait engraving of James Madison seated, from a painting by Chappel.
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Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Portrait engraving of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Portrait of Lars Dahl

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Lars Dahl, with bow tie.
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Allan H. "Bud" Selig

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Bud Selig, when he was President of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team.
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Leslie H. Fishel, Jr.

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Description: Portrait of Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. He was Director of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1959 until 1969.
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Henry A. Huber

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Henry Allen Huber in profile.
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Increase A. Lapham.
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The History of Wisconsin Poster

Date: 1893
Description: John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo...
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Ontonagon River

Date: 1900
Description: View from rocky shoreline across river towards a man standing on rocks and holding a stick in front of a rock face on the opposite shoreline. There are lar...
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Conrad and Maria Schmitt

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Description: Full-length portrait of Maria and Conrad Schmitt, Sherwin Gillett's mother- and father-in-law.
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Conrad Schmitt

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Conrad Schmitt (b. 1843), Sherwin Gillett's father-in-law.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson with Wilbur Cohen

Date: 1965
Description: President Johnson appears to be asking Wilbur Cohen either which pen to sign with or which pen would Wilbur Cohen like to have. What he is signing is unkno...
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Pete Christensen at Trout Lake

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Description: Hand-colored portrait of Pete Christensen leaning on a porch post in front of a building. He is wearing a hat slanted against the sun.
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Colonel Albert Gallatin Ellis

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Albert Gallatin Ellis of Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He was the first editor of "The Green Bay Intelligencer", the first Wisconsin newsp...
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Portrait of Nelson Dewey

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Description: Quarter-length oval-framed portrait of Governor Nelson Dewey in a suit and tie looking slightly to the left.

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