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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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Wright Passport Photograph

Date: 07 10 1956
Description: Two alternate views in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Lloyd Wright, seated, for an unretouched passport photograph. He is holding a cane in his left ...
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John Nolen

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of landscape architect, John Nolen.
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Four Women Sewing

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Description: A group of four women sewing in a business setting.
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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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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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Brooks McCormick Standing Near an IH 1586 Tractor

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Description: Brooks McCormick posing outdoors near an International 1586 tractor.
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Kaltenborn and Hitler

Date: 1932
Description: H.V. Kaltenborn poses next to Adolph Hitler at Berchtesgaden, where Kaltenborn interviewed Hitler.
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William R. Parks

Date: 1908
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of William R. Parks, a photographer from Iola, Wisconsin.
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George Gillette

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait. Caption reads: "George Gillette. Born in London, England in 1811, died Swaledale, Iowa in December 1908. Farmed at Springfield Corners, Wisconsin...
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Martin James Gillen

Date: 1923
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Martin James Gillen, a lawyer, business counselor, political economist, writer, and philanthropist.
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Charles L. Aarons

Date: 1925
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Charles Lehman Aarons, a lawyer and Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge, from 1925 to 1950.
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Joseph P. Selly

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Joseph Selly, President of the American Communications Association, .
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Edward Alexander and Benton Wilcox

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Description: Portrait of Edward Alexander, director of the Wisconsin Historical Society, holding a reel of microfilm, and Benton Wilcox, librarian of the Wisconsin Hist...
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Edward Alsworth Ross

Date: 1937
Description: Semi-profile portrait of UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross sitting in a chair, with bookshelves in the background. Ross was the subject o...

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