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| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ann Hall McCormick (1780-1853), wife of Robert McCormick (1780-1846). Mary Ann and Robert McCormick were the parents of inventor and indus... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of elderly woman in black dress with large bow at neck, seated in chair with hands crossed in her lap in front of a painted backdrop. She w... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Young woman and man, a Mr. Lyman Sinclair, sitting on a log against a tree. The man is smiling and resting one elbow on his knee, while running his hand th... |
| Date: | 01 08 1898 |
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| Description: | The last photograph taken of Frances Willard, a leader in the temperance movement and women's activist in the Methodist church. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin C. Bolles (1836-1920), professor of English and American History at Tufts. He is best known for amassing a vast archive o... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke seated, surrounded by flowers and plants. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man wearing dress clothes and holding a raised switch is driving an ox-drawn mower down a path in a field. The man is also wearing a bowler or derby hat ... |
| Date: | 07 1895 |
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| Description: | Two men, W.M. Smith and W.H.D., rest on a large log over Little Bear Creek. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Thure Kumlien at his work table in the Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien is surrounded by taxidermied birds and is at work stuffing another. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of 1st Lieutenant Charles H. Meyerhoff, Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry, wearing eyeglasses and a badge for the Gr... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland poses in his lavishly decorated library at his house on 315 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 12 25 1890 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of Amanda Joanna McCormick Adams seated in parlor-like setting on Christmas. Mrs. Adams is seated before a framed photograph of a man on th... |
| Date: | 05 1888 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite of Amanda Joanna McCormick Adams (Mrs. Hugh). |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | William and Clara Case Middleton sit on chairs alongside a building; their son Forest stands between them. |
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