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Black Hawk Potawatomi

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite studio portrait of man posing on chair in front of a painted backdrop. He has a beard and is wearing a hat, jacket, and trousers.
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio head and shoulders portrait of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a winged-collar shirt, bow tie, fur collar coat, and hat.
Photograph

Ho-Chunk Man Wearing a Suit

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing with his right hand on a draped chair that also holds a hat. Hi...
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Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man Holding Liquor Bottle and Spherical Object

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing wearing an overcoat (duster) and hat. He is holding a spherical...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Posed Sitting

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk men posed sitting. The man on the left is wearing a suit, bandana, and a hat, and the man on...
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Studio Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk men posed standing near a chair draped with a fringed throw. The man on th...
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Alexander B. Keyes

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Description: Vignetted quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Alexander B. Keyes, 1st Battalion, Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery. He is weari...
Print

National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 1890
Description: Depiction of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, held in Boston, Massachusetts. On the border surrounding the group portrait are ind...
Photograph

Horseback Portrait of General Robert E. Lee

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Description: Copy of a painting of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) on his horse, Traveller. The original painting was found in Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of ...
Photograph

Woodrow Wilson and Wife

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Description: News photograph of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) and his second wife, Edith Wilson (1872-1961), walking.
Print

Oshkosh Brewing Co. Billhead

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Description: Billhead of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, in business from 1894-1971, with the company trademark of a waist-up view of Chief Oshkosh wearing a jacket and bo...
Print

Oshkosh Brewing Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Oshkosh Brewing Company, active from 1894-1971, with the company trademark of a waist-up view of Chief Oshkosh wearing a jacket, a banded...
Painting

Louis Ross or Louis Kossuth

Date: 1852
Description: Oil painting portrait of a man. He is wearing an overcoat and dark top hat with two feathers in the hatband.

There is some confusion about the last name;...

Photograph

Lieutenant H. Pryale

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor portrait of Lieutenant H. Pryale of the 310th United States Army Engineer Corps, C Company, wearing a heavy coat and gloves, as well as a fur hat. ...
Photograph

Shirley and a Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger standing next to an outdoor decorated Christmas tree. Several of her presents are placed at the base of the tree.
Poster

"Das Privatleben Heinrich VIII" (The Private Lives of Henry the Eighth) Film Poster

Date: 1962
Description: German film poster for the re-release of the British film. Illustrated image, in two rounded sections, of Henry the Eighth dressed in red and carrying a sw...
Photograph

Shopping at a Record Store

Date: 01 09 1954
Description: Customer John Salzer (left) looking over an album with George Dasson. Other 33rpm vinyl records are displayed on the wall, and framed photographs of musica...
Print

James Bridger

Date: 1874
Description: An illustrated portrait of wilderness guide and mountain man James Bridger. He is wearing a hat and a fringe jacket.

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