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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Col. William W. Robinson, Seventh Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin... |
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| Description: | L.E. Mercer, of Lenox Iowa, posed with honey-producing equipment. Mercer is wearing a full suit, bow tie, and hat. |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
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| Description: | William H. Brisbane, Chaplain of the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry. Inset photograph taken from a large Civil War commemorative roster. |
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| Description: | Formal vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Brigadier General Halbert Eleazer Paine. |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of United States senator Isaac Stephenson. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant A.T. Lamson of Madison and Lieutenant E.E. Sill as they appeared when they reached the Union lines after escaping from Confederate prison at Col... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A classic Orson Welles publicity still showing him looking intensely into the camera while gesturing with his hands. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Francis Jefferson Coates of the 7th Wisconsin who earned the Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of Gettysburg. Sergeant Coates was so severely wounde... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Schurz, seated, holding a hat and cane. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype oval-framed portrait of Doctor James T. Reeve, assistant surgeon, 10th Wisconsin, Surgeon of the 21st Wisconsin. Quarter-leng... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Karl Bitter, sculptor of "Wealth" and other statuary for the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of Osmund Johnson as an older man, wearing his hat askew. He served in Company K of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. According to the... |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an African American Civil War soldier from Hughes and Meltzer, "A pictorial History of the Negro in America." |
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