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Wisconsin Volunteers, Lookout Mountain

Date: 04 20 1864
Description: Company D, Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Top row (left to right): John Buboltz, Spencer Orlup, J. Henry Otto, Lyman C. Wait, Andrew Jackson, W...
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Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn

Date: 01 1953
Description: Joseph (Joe) McCarthy is seen here with his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, whom he hired on the advice of J. Edgar Hoover.
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Theodore Roosevelt

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Drafting the Declaration of Independence

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Description: An engraving of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston, and Roger Sherman, drafters of the Declaration of Independence gathered...
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Alfred C. Clas

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f...
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Abraham Lincoln

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Description: Portrait engraving of Abraham Lincoln.
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Thomas Alva Edison

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Description: Portrait of Thomas A. Edison.
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Henry C. Taylor

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Description: Noted agriculture economist Henry C. Taylor standing with paper in hand, with seated unidentified man.
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Emil Seidel, Fredrick C. Howe And Victor Berger

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Description: Group portrait of Emil Seidel talking with Fredrick C. Howe and Victor Berger, while another man stands off to the side.
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Composite of the 15th Army Corps Band

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Description: Composite of tintype portrait plates of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps Band.
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Second Lieutenant Charles J. Robinson

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Description: Full-length seated studio portrait of Second Lieutenant Charles J. Robinson of the First Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, G Company, commanded...
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Apiary of Sophia Leonard

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Description: Sophia Leonard's 185 colony apiary.
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Honey Queen, Governor and Fair Queen

Date: 1967
Description: Walworth Fairest of the Fair, Governor Knowles and the Wisconsin Honey Queen all holding a bottle of honey at the Walworth County Fair.
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Cheyenne Police

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Description: The Cheyenne Police, with Tall Bull as their Captain, seen on the right side of the image.
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The Chicken Peddler

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Description: A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him.
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Kewaunee County Road Crew

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Description: Kewaunee County road crew.
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John S. Donald

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Description: John S. Donald and an officer in uniform standing next to a potted evergreen tree.
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Horace Beach

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Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Horace Beach, a Prairie Du Chien area merchant. Born in Keeseville, New York December 5, 1818, he died at age 86 in April of ...
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Tunnel after Snowstorm

Date: 03 1899
Description: Winter scene of man wearing an overcoat and hat stands with a shovel at the far end of a snow tunnel shoveled through a tall snowbank.
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John Gilbert and Virginia Bruce

Date: 05 30 1932
Description: Three-quarter length portrais of actor John Gilbert and his fiancée Virginia Bruce. Both are smiling — he is looking at her and she is looking at the camer...

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