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Mrs. Thomas H. Stewart

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Mrs. Thomas Stewart. Seated three-quarter figure, body facing right (proper left) and head facing front, hands in her lap. She...
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Jerome Luther Marsh

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Jerome Luther Marsh. Half length figure, facing forward, wearing dark suit and tie, with satin or silk vest.
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Elisha Burdick with Unidentified Man and Child

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Elisha Burdick with unidentified man and child. Men are seated, facing forward, wearing suits. Burdick on left, wears full bea...
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Unidentified Man

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of unidentified man, a friend of Charles S. Benton of La Crosse, Wisconsin. Half length seated figure facing forward with right...
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Susan Hempstead Gratiot

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Susan Hempstead Gratiot, seated facing left but eyes focused forward. Right elbow rests on table. She wears a white bonnet tie...
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John Catlin and Wife

Date: 1847
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of John Catlin and his wife, seated, facing forward. He wears a suit, and she a dark dress with white collar, and plaid ribbon cr...
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Frederick J. Starin

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Frederick J. Starin. Half length portrait, facing forward with right forearm on table, wearing suit and tie with collar turned...
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Edward Beers

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Edward Beers, facing forward, wearing a suit and double-breasted plaid vest and checked tie, with stand collar.
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Julia Williams

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of Julia Williams. Half length portrait, facing forward with her hands folded, wearing a dress of flocked fabric, white collar, brooc...
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Private Simon O. Myhre

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Simon O. Myhre of Company I, 15th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry. Seated, facing forward, with rifle held up, pointing to up...
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Martha Bottomley

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Martha Bottomley, facing forward with hands folded at her waist. She is wearing a polka-dotted dress with pleated bodice, whit...
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Thomas Beers

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Thomas Beers, grandfather of Zona Gale Breese. Quarter-length portrait facing forward. He is wearing a wide collared suit coat...
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Joseph Taylor and Constant Hoath Taylor

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Joseph Taylor and Constant Hoath Taylor, great-grandparents of Zona Gale Breese. They are seated, facing forward, with their h...
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Sinclair W. Botkin

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of Sinclair W. Botkin, University of Wisconsin Class of 1857. Quarter-length portrait, facing forward. He is wearing a suit and patte...
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Unidentified Young Woman and Child

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of a young woman with male child. Waist-up portrait with boy standing to her right, wearing jacket and white collar and cuffs. She is...
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Ceylon C. Lincoln

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon Childs Lincoln as a young soldier in full Civil War uniform. Full-length portrait. He is standing in front of a pai...
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Thomas J. Moorman

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Thomas J. Moorman. Quarter-length portrait, facing front and slightly left. He is wearing a suit coat, tie, and stand collar.
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Sawyer Sisters

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Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of five Sawyer sisters, Sylvia, Zernia, Anna, Artemus, and Cordelia. They are facing front, and are wearing striped or prin...
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Unidentified Girl

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of an unidentified girl with her doll. She is seated, facing front, and is wearing a plaid dress with short sleeves, drop earrings, n...
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Unidentified Man and Woman

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of an unidentified man and woman, seated, facing front, with the woman's hand on the man's shoulder. Both are dressed in dark colors....

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