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Painting

On a Sugar Plantation in South Carolina

Date: 1859
Description: Hölzlhuber felt his most interesting experiences in America were his interactions with southern slavery. "My sketch here shows a negro family as I saw them...
Print

Landscape View with River and Riverboat

Date: 1858
Description: Lithograph view of river with a riverboat on the river, and a family on a hill above the river. There is a wagon or cart on the road below the hill.
Photograph

Mary La Follette and her Children

Date: 1858
Description: Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Mary La Follette and her four children, left to right, Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Josephine, William, and (standing) El...
Photograph

Dean Family Sleighing

Date: 1852
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Eliab Dean, an early Madison businessman, riding in a sleigh drawn by two horses with his wife Sarah Fairchild Dean and youn...
Photograph

Siggelkow Family

Date: 05 30 1851
Description: Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis...
Print

Family Around Christmas Tree

Date: 1850
Description: An engraving depicting a formally dressed family gathered around a Christmas tree, which is lit with candles.
Poster

Poster for Morris Brothers' Opera House Minstrels

Date: 1857
Description: Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto...
Photograph

River Falls Rifle Company 1859

Date: 1859
Description: Typed text on back of photograph: "River Falls Rifle company, River Falls, Wis. Organized 1859, later fought with 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment in Civi...
Photograph

Robert Marion La Follette with Brother and Sister

Date: 1858
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Bob La Follette with his brother William and sister Josephine. Bob and Josephine are seated; William is standing between t...
Photograph

Lydia Remsen Draper

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864...
Photograph

Allcott Family

Date: 1852
Description: Whole plate daguerreotype of the Allcott family. The parents, Sidney S. and his wife Julia, are seated. Sidney faces partially left, Julia forward. Their t...
Photograph

George and Anna Marie Brumder

Date: 1857
Description: A seated, three-quarter length portrait of a clean shaven young man, and a young woman with a large fabric headpiece. Gold decoration has been applied to t...

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