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Daniel Wells Jr.

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Description: Quarter plate ambrotype of Daniel Wells Jr. The portrait is from waist-up of left profile, with some scratching and damage to the plate. Daniel Wells Jr. e...
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Captain Samuel Murphy

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of a painting of Captain Samuel Murphy. Murphy served with Captain Samuel Brady in the Pittsburgh region during the Revolutionary War...
Painting

Bland Ballard

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of Bland Ballard (1761-1853). Ballard was a noted Kentucky pioneer, and also served as a scout for General George...
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Colonel William Martin

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Col. William Martin of Tennessee. Williams was an early Tennessee settler who fought in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812....
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Azel P. Ladd

Date: 1852
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Azel Parkhurst Ladd (1811-1854). Ladd was the Wisconsin state superintendent of public instruction in 1852. Oval-framed quarte...
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Captain Joseph Dickson

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Captain Joseph Dickson, waist-up, facing front and slightly towards the right. Dickson fought in the Black Hawk War in 1832.
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Don A.J. Upham

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Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Don A.J. Upham (1809-1877). Born in Vermont, Upham was a lawyer who moved to Milwaukee during the territorial period. The po...
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John Williams

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of John K. Williams. Quarter-length portrait, facing front.
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Group Portrait of Four Men

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Description: Studio group portrait of four men, three sitting and one standing.
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William Lamont

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of William Lamont, quarter length, facing forward, torso slightly left.
Photograph

Elijah Swan

Date: 1850
Description: A sixth plate daguerreotype of Elijah Swan. The subject is half length, facing front. He is holding a cane in his right hand, and an unidentified object i...
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Edward P. Bridgman

Date: 1855
Description: An eighth plate daguerreotype of Edward P. Bridgman, 1834-1915, as a young man. Bridgman served in the 37th Massachusetts volunteer Infantry, Company G in ...
Photograph

Horace Griswold Bliss

Date: 1845
Description: A cased daguerreotype of Horace Griswold Bliss, purported to be Madison's first pharmacist. Subject is seated, looking forward, bent to the right at a 3/4 ...
Photograph

Horace Griswold Bliss

Date: 1845
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of Horace Griswold Bliss sitting in a chair with his legs crossed, wearing a striped coat, striped vest, and striped tie...
Photograph

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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Edward P. Bridgman and Daughter

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Edward P. Bridgman and his daughter in Madison, WI. Seated half figure of man facing front, torso turned to right, wearing coat an...
Photograph

Captain John Gass

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Captain John Gass, (1765-?). The portrait is waist-up, facing front but slightly to the left. He wears a vertically striped ...
Photograph

Chauncey Williams

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Dr. Chauncey Williams, of Lafayette, Onondaga County, New York. Father of Henry C. Williams, and grandfather of N.M. Brown...
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Calvin Smith

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Calvin Smith, son of Lyman Smith, and a cousin of Catherine A. Smith Hallock of Middleton, Wisconsin. Half figure, facing fron...
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William Austin Van Brunt

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Description: Eighth plate ferrotype/tintype of William Austin Van Brunt (1847-1935), half figure, facing front and slightly right, wearing suit coat, vest, and white sh...

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