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Two Lumbermen with Saw

Date: 1880
Description: Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling.
Photograph

Samuel Davis Sturgis I

Date: 1880
Description: Samuel Davis Sturgis, father of Nina Dousman. Born July 11, 1822 and died July 28, 1889. Samuel Sturgis graduated from West Point in the class of 1846 and...
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1880
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936). Mr. McCormick was the oldest son of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). He was ...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Quarters of the Historical Society

Date: 1880
Description: Librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol f...
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly of 1880

Date: 1880
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1880
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate of 1880 around a photograph of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Drawing

1880 Iron Brigade Reunion

Date: 1880
Description: A composite drawing, including photographic portraits, depicting "Doc" Aubrey, newsboy of the Iron Brigade, delivering papers to the camp where other membe...
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1880
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick wearing a stand up collared shirt, bow tie, and double-breasted coat.
Print

Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith

Date: 1880
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Rear Admiral Melancthon Smith, U.S.N.
Photograph

Man and Grandsons Standing in a Field

Date: 1880
Description: Albert Ludley Tuttle of Baraboo, standing with his grandchildren and grown sons with farm equipment and horses in a field of young trees. In the field in t...
Photograph

William Conrad Seipp

Date: 1880
Description: A standing full-length cabinet card portrait of William Conrad Seipp, the oldest son of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. He rests his left forearm on an ornate...
Photograph

William H. Metcalf

Date: 1880
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of William Metcalf seated sideways in a chair.
Photograph

Christoph Hotz

Date: 1880
Description: Vignetted three-quarter head and shoulders studio portrait of Christoph Hotz (1841-1904). He has a full beard and is wearing a suit coat, vest and necktie.
Book or Pamphlet

Moses Kilgore

Date: 1880
Description: Portrait of Moses Kilgore.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Quarters of the Historical Society

Date: 1880
Description: Stereograph of librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin ...
Photograph

John Antisdel

Date: 1880
Description: Portrait of hotelier, John Francis Antisdel, wearing a coat with a fur-lined collar and a cravat.
Photograph

King Alfonso XII and Queen Maria Christina with Daughter

Date: 1880
Description: Cabinet card group portrait of Alfonso XII and Maria Christina, the King and Queen of Spain. Queen Maria Christina is holding their first daughter, Maria d...
Photograph

King Alfonso XII and Queen Maria Christina

Date: 1880
Description: Cabinet card portrait of Alfonso XII and Maria Christina, the King and Queen of Spain.
Photograph

John Alcock

Date: 1880
Description: Oval-framed tintype portrait of John Alcock, a professor of phonography/shorthand at Bayless' Business College of Dubuque. He moved to Platteville and foun...

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