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Knudt Johnson

Date: 1865
Description: Tintype/ferrotype waist-up portrait of Knudt Johnson of the Dodgeville Guards, later known as Company C, 12th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Gold ...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Company I, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry

Date: 1865
Description: Group portrait made from a composite of 2 photoprints of Company I, first Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry. Standing in back: M.P. Stone, Hiram Gee. Next row: ...
Photograph

Fred D. Grant

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Fred D. Grant, son of Ulysses S. Grant, at 15 years of age, standing near a chair in front of a painted backdrop dressed in ...
Photograph

J.K.P. Porter House

Date: 1865
Description: Family portrait of the Porters, standing in front of their log cabin with a horse.
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Eau Claire House

Date: 1865
Description: The first Eau Claire House built in 1856. It burned down in 1875.
Photograph

Officers of the 43rd Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1865
Description: Officers of the 43rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with Colonel Amasa Cobb seated at the center. It is likely this picture was taken when the field and sta...
Photograph

Professor Alexander Kerr, Classicist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Kerr (1828-1919), Scottish-born Professor of Greek at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Appointed to his...
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Manning Ferguson Force, Army Commander

Date: 1865
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Manning Ferguson Force (1824-1899), U.S. Army Commander. Force led the 20th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Un...
Photograph

William Sanderson McCormick

Date: 1865
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of William Sanderson McCormick (1815-1865).
Photograph

Miles Trowbridge

Date: 1865
Description: Oval quarter-length portrait of Miles Trowbridge in military uniform.
Photograph

Cassius Fairchild

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Colonel Cassius Fairchild, F & S, 16th Wisconsin Infantry.
Print

Cartoon of the Flight of Jefferson Davis

Date: 1865
Description: Jefferson Davis in a hoop skirt with a basket and fallen dagger. Photographic card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in women...
Print

Capture of an Unprotected Female

Date: 1865
Description: "Capture of an unprotected female, or the close up of the Rebellion." Photograph card of a cartoon concerning Jefferson Davis' flight across Georgia in wo...
Photograph

Robert H. Spencer

Date: 1865
Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Robert H. Spencer, F & S, 47th Wisconsin Infantry, holding his sword in his left hand and his hat in ...
Poster

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture

Date: 1865
Description: Key to a composite portrait of the members of Congress who voted for to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the caption misidenti...
Photograph

David G. James

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait of David G. James holding a large, over the shoulder horn, and a hat.
Photograph

Man in Three-Piece Suit

Date: 1865
Description: Tintype/ferrotype waist-up oval portrait of an African American man wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and partially buttoned vest.
Photograph

Alfred P. Edgerton

Date: 1865
Description: Formal portrait of Alfred P. Edgerton seated at a small table.
Print

Luther Dixon

Date: 1865
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Luther Swift Dixon at age 40.
Photograph

George G. Burr

Date: 1865
Description: Ferrotype/tintype of George G. Burr in a Civil War uniform and cap. Waist-up portrait, seated sideways in a chair, with his arm on the back of his chair. H...

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