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| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Embossed photograph (platinum print) of Fred Pabst. "Pabst, Frederick (Mar. 28, 1836-Jan. 1, 1904), brewer, business executive, b. Thuringia, Germany. He m... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up seated portrait of Col. John Johnston. Johnston is pictured here as an elderly man; however, he is remembered in Wi... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of the photographer Ferdinand Hotz (March 14, 1868 - December 28, 1946) as a young man. He wears a fine suit and a single pearl stu... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Knapp, Stout & Co. lumber mill office with posed members of the staff. On the desk in the center of the room is a device with an earpiece h... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Philip L. Spooner, Wisconsin State Insurance Commissioner, in his office with associates. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group of relatives and associates of John Johnston, posed sitting and standing on the steps of the estate. Some of the men wear bowler hats and hold canes,... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Six prominent German American brewers pose outdoors, seated around a table, for a portrait labeled "The Poterhouse [sic] Club." Well-dressed in suits and h... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait drawing of Nathan Paine of Paine Lumber Company who brought charges against George Zentner and Michael Troiber in the Oshkosh l... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Frederick Layton, at about age 50. Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher and ran the business until his retirement... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Portrait of hotelier, John Francis Antisdel, wearing a coat with a fur-lined collar and a cravat. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph portrait of Egbert W. Gillett, who wrote Gillett's magic cook book in 1892 and founded the Northwestern Yeast Company in Chicago in 1893.... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of the Honorable Abraham G. Adams, a boot and shoe salesman in Burlington, IA. His success in business led him to invest in the devel... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length semi profile portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturing ... |
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