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James Duane Doty

Date: 1858
Description: Salted paper photoprint of James Duane Doty, territorial governor of Wisconsin 1841-44.
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Martin Van Buren

Date: 1840
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States from 1837-1841. Born on December 5, 1782 in Columbia, New York, ...
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John Tyler

Date: 1843
Description: John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, from 1841-1845. Tyler was the first Vice President to become President upon the death of a sitting Presid...
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William Henry Harrison Tribute

Date: 04 1841
Description: A notice published In Memory of President Wm. H. Harrison, 9th President of the United States, upon his death, April 4, 1841, at the age of 68. The tribut...
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James K. Polk

Date: 1849
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States, 1845-1849.
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Franklin Pierce

Date: 1855
Description: A portrait of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, 1853-1857. Pierce was born on November 23, 1804 in Hillsboro, New Hampshire and died O...
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James Buchanan

Date: 1860
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva...
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Rutherford B. Hayes

Date: 1881
Description: Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O...
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Sioux Man in Full War Dress

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length portrait of a Sioux man at the Rosebud Agency in full dress, ready for war.
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Fairchild at Gettysburg Monument

Date: 1869
Description: Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair...
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Augustus Dodge

Date: 1876
Description: Studio portrait of Augustus Dodge, son of Wisconsin's first Territorial Governor, Henry Dodge.
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Wisconsin Assembly Clerks and Employees

Date: 1877
Description: Composite of portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Assembly. Clerks and employees: 1. T.B. Reid, Sgt-at-Arms 2. W.A. Nowell, Chief Clerk 3. M. Knig...
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Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1860
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 09 1864
Description: Abraham Lincoln in one of the famous portraits known as the Brady Profiles.
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Abraham Lincoln

Date: 08 26 1858
Description: Copy of ambrotype made by W.H. Pearson in Macomb, Illinois. Taken five days after the first debate with Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Ottawa, Illinois. Lin...
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Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1865
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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Tammany Hall Presidential Campaign

Date: 11 08 1856
Description: Political drawing for the Democratic Presidential Campaign, which included Buchanan and Breckenridge.
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Republican Presidential Nomination Candidates

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Chester A. Arthur, General John A. Logan, George Franklin Edmunds, and James G...
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Patriotic Letterhead

Date: 10 13 1864
Description: Colorfully decorated letter received in the office of Wisconsin Governor James Lewis from Isaac Joiner of the Veterans Reserve Corps stationed in Alexandri...
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Republican Presidential Nomination Candidates

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Robert T. Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, General Joseph Roswell Hawley, ...

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