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Painting

Chief Oshkosh

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Description: Chief Oshkosh, (1795-) August 29, 1858, Menomonee Indian chief.
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Painting

Mrs. Austin Quinney and Her Daughter Harriet

Date: 1849
Description: Portrait of Jane Quinney, (born Ashotomay) wife of Austin E. Quinney, chief of the Stockbridge nation, and their daughter, Harriet.
Photograph

Syvert A. Lee

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait of Syvert A. Lee, a private in Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform next to a prop baluster and railing. The fol...
Photograph

The National American Woman Suffrage Association

Date: 02 1916
Description: Round and oval-framed portraits of nine newly elected officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The officers are Mrs. Frank M. Roessing...
Print

Nah-shaw-a-gaa, Or The White Dog's Son

Date: 1827
Description: Nah-shaw-a-gaa, or the White Dog's Son, a Pottawatomie (Potawatomi) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, drawn at the Treaty of Gr...
Photograph

Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
Print

Kitch-ee-i-aa-ba, or the Big Buck, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Chief

Date: 1825
Description: Kitch-ee-i-aa-ba, or the Big Buck, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the treaty of Prarie du Chi...
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Postcard

"Buffalo Bill" Cody

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Description: Postcard reproduction of a portrait of William Frederick Cody from the T.B. Walker Collection.
Painting

Tshusick

Date: 1835
Description: Portrait of Tshusick, an Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman, that appeared in Volume I of The History of Indian Tribes by Thomas McKenney and James Hall.
Photograph

James Garland Sturgis

Date: 1870
Description: Portrait of James Garland Sturgis in his West Point(?) cadet uniform. Born January 24, 1854; son of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and younger brother of Nina Stu...
Photograph

Military Portrait

Date: 1900
Description: Unknown soldier in full dress uniform.
Photograph

Samuel Davis Sturgis II

Date: 1880
Description: Born August 1, 1861, Samuel Sturgis was the younger brother of Nina Sturgis Dousman. He attended West Point Military Academy and had a distinguished career...
Print

Abdih-Hiddisch (A Minatarre Chief)

Date: 1832
Description: Abdih-Hiddisch, a Minatarre Chief, posed holding an ax.
Photograph

Friedrich Holdmann on Horseback

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Description: Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background.
Print

Lulu Glaser

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Description: Lulu Glaser (1874-1958), renowned Victorian/Edwardian comedic actress and singer.
Print

Queenie Vassar

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Description: Queenie Vassar (1870-1960) Scottish-born stage and motion picture actress of the 1930s and 1940s.
Magazine or Periodical

Cardinal Paul Cullen

Date: 11 30 1878
Description: Illustration of the late Cardinal Paul Cullen, Roman Catholic archbishop of Dublin.
Photograph

Manchester's, Inc., Window #1, Hats

Date: 09 05 1945
Description: Window #1 at H.S. Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, showing seven hats, accessories, a floral arrangement, and a portrait of a woman wearing a hat...

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