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Photograph

Isaiah Boone

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Quarter-length portrait of Isaiah Boone. Mr. Boone is holding a cane in his hand. Boone was from Indiana.
Photograph

Judge Christopher S. Wood

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Judge Christopher S. Wood. Wood fought with General Simon Kenton. Hand coloring on cheeks.
Painting

General Josiah Harmar

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of a painting of General Josiah Harmar. General Harmar fought for the United States against Native Americans in the 1780's and ...
Photograph

General Ben Whiteman

Date: 1850
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of General Benjamin Whiteman. Quarter-length portrait of Ben Whiteman wearing a suit and necktie. Whiteman fought with General ...
Photograph

William Hall

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a painting of General William Hall of Tennessee.
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...
Photograph

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.
Drawing

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Waist-up pen and ink drawing of Chief Oshkosh. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. He wears a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded neckpouch and a blanket w...
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...
Postcard

Residence of James J. Strang

Date: 1850
Description: Printed postcard of an illustration of the James Strang residence on Beaver Island, Michigan. Two men are standing in front of a stockade fence in front of...
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 ...
Print

Case's Threshing Machine

Date: 1850
Description: Engraving of a man in a coat and hat feeding stalks into a thresher. The thresher is run by two horses on a treadmill at right. The grain is collected from...
Photograph

Lydia Remsen Draper

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864...
Book or Pamphlet

Richard W. Thompson

Date: 1850
Description: Studio portrait of Richard Thompson sitting in a chair and holding a cane.
Photograph

Increase Claflin

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Increase Claflin, first white settler of Door County.
Photograph

Reverend A.M. Iverson

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Reverend Andrew M. Iverson of the first Moravian congregation in Door County.
Photograph

Ezekiel Gillespie

Date: 1850
Description: Black and white copy print of a daguerreotype portrait of Ezekiel Gillespie.
Postcard

Racine Harbor

Date: 1850
Description: Text on front reads: "Racine, Wisconsin in 1850." Artist's rendering of the view of the harbor with sailing ships, sailboats, rowboats and canoes. The Main...

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