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Fritz Anneke

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Description: Ninth plate tintype/ferrotype portrait of Fritz Anneke sitting in a chair. Fritz Anneke was a German socialist and newspaper editor and writer. He immigrat...
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Joseph Smith

Date: 1861
Description: Tintype portrait of Joseph Smith of Evansville, Wisconsin, member of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry band. He is seated wearing a suit and holds a tenor horn.
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John Carr

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of John Carr wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and dark necktie. A pair of eyeglasses are resting on the ...
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William Hall

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee.
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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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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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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two women. The woman on the left wears eyeglasses and a white collar and is sitting in a chair with a boo...
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Portrait of a Couple

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man and a woman. The woman is standing on the left and has her hand resting on the shoulder of the man ...
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Reverend Nils Otto Tank

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Reverend Nils Otto Tank, seated, facing front and to the right with left elbow on a table. Tank was a Moravian religious l...
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Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney

Date: 1845
Description: Ninth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up portrait of Susan Shriver Meyer Sweeney. Half figure facing directly front, wearing round-rimmed spectacles and whi...
Painting

William Henry Mylrea

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Description: Cased miniature painting on ivory of William Henry Mylrea. Quarter length portrait, he is facing forward, wearing a suit and purple tie, and eyeglasses.
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Doctor John M. Henderson

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype. Waist-up portrait of Doctor John M. Henderson, seated, facing forward with torso turned slightly left. He is wearing a suit and tie,...
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Mr. and Mrs. Oakley

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Mr. and Mrs. Oakley, parents of Mrs. Sylvanus Wade of Greenbush, Wisconsin. Waist-up portrait, seated, facing forward, with ...
Photograph

Jacob Porter Norton

Date: 1846
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Jacob Porter Norton (1793-1846). Quarter-length portrait, facing slightly right. Norton is wearing a suit, bow tie, and stand ...
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Unidentified Male Member of the George A. Johnson Family

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a member of the George A. Johnson family. Waist-up portrait facing forward. He is wearing a suit, cravat, stand collar, and oc...
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Princeton Theological Semnary Class of 1849

Date: 1849
Description: Daguerreotype composite of the Princeton Theological Semnary Class of 1849. Twenty-seven separate photographs, seven individual and twenty paired. All the ...
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Our Baby

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Description: Comedic photograph of a man wearing eyeglasses with a drawing depicting him as a baby in a wash basin, labeled "Our Baby."

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