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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Composite layout of Gesell family portraits displayed with peacock feathers photographed in a studio. |
| Date: | 06 1863 |
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| Description: | Halftone print of an adolescent Old Abe, bald eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Civil War Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Closeup image of Old Abe on his shi... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Six young women are posing on a ladder in a woods. There is a young girl in front of them. A woman and a young girl are standing off to the side. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | John Fawcett Tyrrell, handwriting expert and documents examiner of Milwaukee, standing at left of an illuminated poster, ten feet high, entitled "The Histo... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Man and woman seated on an overgrown hillside. The woman has ferns on her lap and is holding an umbrella. Inscribed on reverse of original mount: "B.D.L. a... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of an unidentified man. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Rose Loomis, of Sullivan, Ohio, wearing a dress and seated in a rocking chair in a garden. |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ann Dudley, as an old lady, seated in a garden, Sullivan. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Mary Turvill McConnell. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Kent Wood, with a pipe in his mouth and sitting in a cart, posing with two dogs. All three are in profile. The side of a building is be... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jessie Turvill Thwaites, wife of the Wisconsin Historical Society Director Ruben Gold Thwaites. She is sitting sideways in a chair, and is hold... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Kent Wood sitting on a wooden wheelbarrow against a wall holding a pipe. He has his right arm resting on a wooden box. A dog (at the ed... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A standing, three-quarter length portrait of Alma Seipp wearing a graduation cap and gown posed in front of a painted backdrop. She has her hand on her hip... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a house on the banks of the Mississippi River at the base of rocky bluffs. Probably located between Alma and Nelson, along Beef S... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | An unknown boy and woman, possibly Arthur Pugh and his mother Jeanette, posing sitting for a full-length studio portrait. Between them a dog is sitting on ... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Version of the Wisconsin Seal found in The American's Own Book, 1849. It depicts a plow and a bundle of wheat in the foreground, and a steamship on ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Chief Elijah Skenandoah, a Turtle Clan chief of the Oneida nation. He moved to Wisconsin from New York in the 1830s, along with a group of Onei... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed portrait of two children, identified as Willie Gowdy (left) and Edward Alsworth Ross (right). Willie Gowdy was Edward's half-brother. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rachel Alsworth Ross, a schoolteacher who lived in Virden, Illinois. Rachel was the mother of UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ro... |
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