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Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1879
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor...
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Carl Schurz

Date: 1879
Description: Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane.
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Elizabeth Therese Baird

Date: 1879
Description: Formal full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Therese Baird wearing a long, black dress.
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Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1879
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1879.
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Theodore Bernhard

Date: 1879
Description: Sixth-plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Theodore Bernhard, from Watertown, Wisconsin. Educator, member of the assembly in 1854. He is facing to...
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Willliam Francis Allen

Date: 1879
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of William Francis Allen, professor of ancient languages and history at UW-Madison. Dr. Allen had taught ...

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