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Wisconsin State Assembly in 1861

Date: 1861
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1863
Description: Wisconsin State Assembly members of 1863.
Photograph

William Pitt Lynde

Date: 1866
Description: Portrait of William Pitt Lynde at the Wisconsin Assembly in 1866. Ten years later he introduced legislation for women's suffrage to U.S. Congress. In the b...
Photograph

John Rugee

Date: 1861
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of John Rugee, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Print

James Buchanan

Date: 1860
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States, 1857-1861. Buchanan was born in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennsylva...
Photograph

Asaph Whittlesey

Date: 1860
Description: Asaph Whittlesey dressed for his journey from Ashland to Madison, Wisconsin, to take up his seat in the state legislature. Whittlesey is attired for the lo...
Photograph

Leonard J. Farwell

Date: 1860
Description: Leonard J. Farwell (1819-1889), Madison businessman-promoter and Wisconsin's only Whig governor (1852-1854). When this salted paper portrait was taken, Far...
Photograph

Louis P. Harvey

Date: 1860
Description: Portrait of Republican Louis P. Harvey, while he was Wisconsin secretary of state (1860-1861). Harvey became governor in January, 1862, but drowned in the ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly Composite

Date: 1866
Description: Composite photograph of members of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Manuscript

Autographs of Legislators

Date: 1861
Description: A page of autographs of the members of the 1861 Wisconsin Legislature.
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate Clerks

Date: 1860
Description: Oval portrait of Wisconsin Senate Clerks. Standing in back is J.H. Warren. Seated from left to right are J.B. Selby, Mr. Wright, Willard Merrill, G.M. Powe...
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1862
Description: Composite of photographs of the members of the Wisconsin Senate of 1862. At the top is a depiction of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Banner in center top rea...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1860
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1860
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate.
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1867
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1865
Description: Composite of portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1867
Description: Composite photograph of the Wisconsin Senate by Whiting of the Madison studio, Robert's & Whitings Temple of Art, printed as a carte-de-visite.
Photograph

Charles G. Hammarquist

Date: 1860
Description: Waist-up oval framed portrait of Charles Hammarquist, Representative in the Wisconsin Assembly from Fort Atkinson.
Poster

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture

Date: 1865
Description: Key to a composite portrait of the members of Congress who voted for to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the caption misidenti...
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1862
Description: Composite of photographs of the Wisconsin Senate of 1862. At the top is a depiction of the Wisconsin State Capitol framed by two draped U.S. Flags. Below t...

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