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Charles Ilsley

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Charles Ferdinand Ilsley, who with his partner Samuel Marshall, established a bank in Milwaukee, incorporated in 1888....
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Joel Hayman, Jr.

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Joel Hayman. He was the brother of Elizabeth Layton, the wife of Frederick Layton, and he married Grace Dawson in 1866. There is a med...
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Edwin C. Eldridge

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edwin Eldridge. He was the first curator of the Layton Art Gallery, and an accomplished portrait artist. He stimulated an intere...
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Frederick Layton

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Frederick Layton who is standing with his hands in his pockets. Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher and ran the busi...
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Frederick Layton

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Description: Ferrotype of Frederick Layton posing on a bench holding an umbrella in front of a painted background. Frederick Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher a...
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Frederick Layton

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Description: Waist-up oval-framed tintype portrait of a young Frederick Layton, about 30 years old, in a blue velvet oval compact.
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Frederick Layton

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Frederick Layton in middle age.
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Frederick Layton

Date: 1907
Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frederick Layton in late middle age. He is holding a cane in one hand and a hat in the other. He die...
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Frederick Layton in a Garden

Date: 1914
Description: Frederick Layton gave this hand-colored photograph of himself in his garden on Marshall Street to his niece Elizabeth Layton Fowle on August 8, 1914. He di...
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Group Outing on a Boat

Date: 1897
Description: View from shoreline of excursion boat docked in a wooded area. From left to right: Mary ??, Elizabeth Layton, Grace Hayman, Henry Wallis (owner of the Fren...
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Layton with Two Women on Deck

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Description: Frederick Layton is posing with Grace Hayman Fowle, his niece, and Grace's mother (the former Grace Dawson) near the rails on the deck of a ship. Behind th...
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Layton Art Gallery

Date: 1888
Description: View across street towards the facade of the original Layton Art Gallery building at 758 N. Jefferson Street. Two men stand at the top of the stairs betwee...
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Niagara Falls Outing

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Description: Frederick Layton posing in a studio shot with two women, one of whom is Laura Ackroyd. The backdrop is a photograph of Niagara Falls.

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