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Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
Photograph

James Duane Doty

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

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...
Photograph

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...
Document

Milwaukee House Stationery

Date: 1857
Description: Letter on stationery featuring an engraving of an exterior view of the Milwaukee House showing horse-drawn vehicles and people standing on the sidewalk in ...
Photograph

Tammany Hall Presidential Campaign

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

Termperance Traveling Card

Date: 1858
Description: A certificate declaring the admission of U. P. Olin into the Independent Order of Good Templars.
Photograph

Edward P. Allis

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length semi profile portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturing ...

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