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Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1890
Description: Quarter-length formal studio portrait of Lucius Fairchild.
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Margery Bish Hanging Clothes on Clothesline

Date: 1890
Description: Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right.
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Children in Bed

Date: 1890
Description: Bedroom scene with two boys in a bed with ornate headboard.
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Miners with ore crushers

Date: 1890
Description: Highland Mines owner, Harris Lewis, center, with miners, stands before zinc ore crushers.
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Brass Band

Date: 1895
Description: Brass band musicians in uniform pose with their instruments.
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Magnus Swenson (1855-1936)

Date: 1890
Description: Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buildi...
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Gesell Photographic Studio

Date: 1895
Description: Street with Gesell Photographic Studio, which is built into the side of a bluff, about 1895. His studio was on Main Street from 1877-1903. Miller and Co. L...
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Seated Couple at Home

Date: 1899
Description: Portrait of an elderly couple seated in their home. The woman is holding a bouquet of flowers. The man is seated slightly behind her, with his right arm o...
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Henry Kendall College Football Team

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of the 1898 Henry Kendall College football team, made up of four Creek Indians, two Choctaw Indians, one Cherokee Indian, and ten white men.
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Carl and Roy Linnell

Date: 1895
Description: Two young men, Carl and Roy Linnell, standing on either side of a wooden chair supporting a mounted buck's head with antlers. They are wearing dark suit ja...
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Studio Portrait of Two Brothers

Date: 1894
Description: Studio portrait of two young brothers, standing side by side. The man on the right has his hand on his brother's shoulder. They are both are wearing hats a...
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Studio Portrait of Jule and Joe Hubert

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait of Jule (in overalls) and Joe Hubert. Both men are holding cigars and are wearing tilted hats in front of a painted backdrop.
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Studio Portrait of Three Men

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait of three men standing, one of whom is a little person, standing in front of a painted backdrop. All of the men are wearing hats, and the ma...
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Florence County Court House

Date: 1890
Description: Front entrance of the Florence County Court House.
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Albert Weise Residence

Date: 1898
Description: Albert Weise's residence, with wooden sidewalk, and two kids standing on the front porch posing for the photographer.
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Gwyneth Roe

Date: 1895
Description: Formal portrait of Gwyneth Roe, wife of Gilbert Roe, on which she has written "the year I went to Madison." Gilbert Roe was a law partner of Robert M. La ...
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Studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

Date: 1896
Description: Waist-up portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the best known leaders of the women's suffrage movement who had strong ties to the North Country and who o...
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Hotel Juneau

Date: 1895
Description: Necedah, Wisconsin. 1895-1899. Hotel Juneau with several people on front porch and balcony. On the middle balcony appear (the sequence is ambiguous) : Sila...
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Funeral Floral Offering

Date: 1891
Description: Floral offering built around the form of a steam engine at the funeral of Matt Ellis.
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Turville's Point

Date: 08 1893
Description: Lake Monona shoreline at Turville's Point.

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