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John H. Fonda

Date: 1860
Description: Quarter-plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length portrait of John H. Fonda, settler in the Prairie Du Chien area. He is sitting facing front, with one hand in...
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Eliab Dean

Date: 1860
Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Eliab Dean, (b. 1819 - d. 1900) an early Madison businessman. Dean came to Madison in the 1840s to work for his cousin, ...
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Maria A. Morrison

Date: 1860
Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Maria A. Morrison, born Maria Amelia Hickox in 1800, the wife of Wisconsin pioneer James Morrison. With her husband, Mrs...
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Mrs. Nathaniel Dean

Date: 1860
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Morrison Dean, the wife of Nathaniel Dean of Madison. Mrs. Dean was born in Dodgeville in 1829, moved to Ma...
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Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1860
Description: Pre-Civil War portrait of Lucius Fairchild wearing a hat.
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Young Girl

Date: 1860
Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of a young girl, most likely of the Charles Minton Baker family. She is sitting in a chair with her hands in her lap. Hand-coloring o...
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Mary Hanford Turner

Date: 1860
Description: Mary Hanford Turner, mother of Frederick Jackson Turner. This portrait was taken prior to her marriage to Andrew Jackson Turner.

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