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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company annual catalog cover featuring an illustration of a woman carrying a sheaf of wheat. Below the text reads: "Harvesting... |
| Date: | 09 06 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1843 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ellen Clarinda Martin Kneeland. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jane Quinney, (born Ashotomay) wife of Austin E. Quinney, chief of the Stockbridge nation, and their daughter, Harriet. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Belle Case La Follette wearing a black lace dress. This photograph was taken about 1885, the year in which her husband, Robert M.... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| Date: | 01 25 1864 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Anna Martin Gourlay (1858-1864). She is seated, facing forward, wearing a short-sleeved dress, and holding a doll... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Elizabeth Mears, also known as Nellie Wildwood. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Harold Fowler McCormick with his first wife Edith Rockefeller McCormick. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman holding a tree branch. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The R. Daniel Rickelsen family sitting around a table, including a small dog near the base of the table. One man is sitting and holding a cane. A lady on t... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a couple in old-style Norwegian clothes, with the woman holding a book on her lap. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Seated studio portrait of a young girl. She is wearing glass or amber beads. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a husband, wife and two daughters, whose dresses are of different designs but made of the same plaid fabric. They are posed in front of a... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Portrait of two unidentified children holding hands while posing on homemade fancy chairs. The girl is dressed in a hand-me-down dress cut from a heavy woo... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of an unidentified young woman with clear view of bodice trim, lace collar and jewelry. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The studio portrait of Ingeborg Dahl made after her marriage to Nels, the photographer's brother. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait of a woman with curled hair, lace trim collar with pin and earrings. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
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