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Sophronia Newcomb Larkin

Date: 1845
Description: A sixth-plate daguerreotype of Sophronia Newcomb Larkin, who married Benjamin Franklin Larkin. She is seated, and is wearing a dress with a white collar. H...
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Anna Gourlay

Date: 01 25 1864
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Anna Martin Gourlay (1858-1864). She is seated, facing forward, wearing a short-sleeved dress, and holding a doll...
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Woman and Child

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of unidentified woman seated on a cane-back chair, holding a child on her lap. The woman has a plaid shawl wrapped around he...
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Unidentified Woman with Infant

Date: 1848
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated woman in a long-sleeve printed dress and shoulder-length side curls, holding a sleeping baby on her lap with her righ...
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Vedder House

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of the Cornelia Vedder house. A woman is standing on the porch. Described as the house "where George Winnie, a conductor on the...
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Kenneth Pray in Childhood Dress

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Kenneth Lewis Moffat Pray (1882-1948. Kenneth was born September 27, 1882,in Whitewater, WI, the ...
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Lucetta Case

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Description: Quarter plate tintype/ferrotype of Lucetta Case (1808-1884). Three-quarter-length seated figure wearing dark dress with white collar, and ribbons in hair, ...
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Young Woman

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of an unidentified young woman in dotted long sleeve dress, seated and holding a purse and a bouquet of flowers. Hand coloring on che...
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Child Sitting on Bench

Date: 1875
Description: Tintype/ferrotype of a child sitting on a bench wearing a white dress and shoes.
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Unidentified Woman and Young Girl

Date: 1860
Description: Sixth plate ambrotype portrait of a woman and a young girl. The woman is seated, and the girl is standing beside her resting her hand on the woman's should...
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Margaret Stoltz

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Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up seated portrait of Margaret Stoltz, in mourning attire, including a veil over her head. She later married and becam...
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Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond

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Description: Ninth plate tintype/ferrotype. Quarter-length portrait of Rebecca Boone Grant Lamond. She is wearing a dark-colored dress, and a cap that ties under her ch...
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Unidentified Daguerreotype of Couple

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Description: Half plate daguerreotype of an unidentified man and woman. The man is seated and the woman is standing and has her hand resting on the man's shoulder. The ...
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Elsey Ormsbee Bristol

Date: 1840
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha...
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Franz Massing, Wife and Child

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Description: Half plate ambrotype of Franz Massing with his wife, and daughter Frances. Massing was the founder of the Madison Mannerchor in 1870. The family is seated....
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Lucy Moody

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype. Waist-up portrait of Lucy Moody. Lucy is wearing a dark dress with a white-work collar, and a brooch at the neck. Over the dress she...
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Aunt Churchill

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of a woman identified as Aunt Churchill. The woman is seated in a chair with her arms folded in her lap. She is wearing ...
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Mrs. Christian Miller

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype waist-up portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Christian Miller. Mrs. Miller is seated in a chair with one arm resting ...
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Celestia Mills

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Celestia Mills. Miss Mills is seated with one arm resting on a table, and holding an open book with her other hand. M...
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Ambrotype Portrait of Man and Woman

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Description: A pair of sixth plate ambrotype waist-up portraits of an unidentified man and woman. In each portrait the subject is seated with the left hand on the lap a...

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