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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Nina Sturgis Dousman, wife of H. Louis Dousman, standing behind a chair. Born April 20, 1852; died July 25, 1930. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Jerusha Sturgis, standing near a chair. The wife of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; Died ... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraving from a painting of John Adams. Inscription reads: "John Adams From a Painting by Chappel, in the possession of the Publishers. Johnson, Fry & C... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of George Walter Oakley as a child standing next to a cloth-covered table with his both his hands resting on top of it, ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a young Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) seated in a chair holding a doll. She is wearing a dress and her feet are resting on pillows ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) as a young adult, posing next to a plush upholstered chair while holding a folded han... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Mary Virginia McCormick (1861-1941) as a girl, seated and leaning on the arm of a chair. She is wearing a decorated jacket and a ribbon ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, William Hindsley (Hensley) (CooNooChoNeeNikKah). He is holding a pipe tomahawk and is wearing bandolie... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Ho-Chunk man with long hair posing sitting with his legs crossed. He is wearing a suit, b... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Ada Burlingame Bass, center, with her daughter Everetta, and parents Leroy J. (far left) and Alvina Burlingame (far right.) The other man and woman are un... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sits in a chair with her hair down, looking at a note, or possibly a photograph. An unidentified woman observes from the next room; decorative cor... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A class of male and female students work in a biology laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Two women stand in the middle of the large, open r... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Low angle view of "Ma" sitting in a large chair near a window wearing a long white dress or nightgown in a bedroom with a fur rug over another rug. There a... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Clara Middleton holds her naked infant son Forest on her lap. There are many throw pillows around them, including one that features a "W" and the cheer "U!... |
| Date: | 10 20 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length studio portrait of James Steele sitting in a chair with his arm resting on a table covered with a patterned c... |
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