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| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the second Fort Crawford, built 1829-1835. Two men are in a boat in the water in the foreground. The first Fort Crawford at Pra... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A frame enlargement from Thomas Edison's 1896 silent film "The Kiss" featuring May Irwin and John C. Rice reprising the controversial final scene of the pl... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of William Wallace Kerrigan, his older brother George Warren Kerrigan, and a small dog, probably taken in Indiana around 1882. George War... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Half-length portrait of actress and singer Lillian Russell with her young daughter Dorothy Lillian Solomon, who later performed under the name Dorothy Russ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Copy print of a quarter-length daguerreotype portrait of James Jesse Strang. |
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