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Unknown Soldier

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of unknown soldier in front of a painted backdrop. Three-quarter length portrait, facing forward, sitting in a chair with his legs crosse...
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Miss Laura M. Cornelius

Date: 1911
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Laura M. Cornelius. She is wearing a long coat and a hat with flowers.
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Portrait of Baby Alfred Holt in a Victorian Wicker Chair

Date: 07 1898
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Alfred Holt sitting in a Victorian wicker chair. He is looking at the camera and smiling. Caption reads: ...
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Eleanor and Mother

Date: 02 20 1901
Description: Sitting on a wicker chair, Lucy Rumsey Holt is holding her daughter Eleanor Holt who is 3 months and 10 days old. Eleanor may be wearing a christening gown...
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Eleanor and Father

Date: 02 20 1901
Description: W.A. Holt is standing and holding his daughter Eleanor who is 3 months and 10 days old. She may be wearing a christening gown. This portrait was taken in a...
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Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1901
Description: Full-length studio portrait of activist Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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Tea Party

Date: 1905
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Holt, wearing a bow in her hair, who is standing and pouring a cup of tea for her brother, Donald...
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Elizabeth, Edward, and Benjamin Styles

Date: 1880
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a family, with a child standing between seated parents. These are Benjamin Woolsey Styles, his wife Eliza...
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Young Boy with the Three Bears

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Description: A young boy is sitting at a table with three stuffed bears, in a room decorated as if from the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The wall is paint...
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Your Devoted Comrade, Inez Milholland

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Description: Studio portrait of suffragist Inez Milholland sitting with her chin in her hand at a table with an open book. Signed at bottom right: "Your devoted comrade...
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Barbers Union Local 31

Date: 1903
Description: Studio group portrait of men on the Champion Base Ball team. Most of the men are identified.
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Elon Frances Brown

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop and a U.S. Flag of Civil War soldier Elon Frances Brown of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, posing in unifor...
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Eleanor Holt Writing or Drawing

Date: 1906
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Holt sitting at a small table, writing or drawing on paper, with classmates kneeling and standing...
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Portrait of Mary Griggs as a Child

Date: 1925
Description: Studio portrait of Mary Griggs as a young girl, taken in St. Paul, MN.
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Wausau Cardinals Basketball Team

Date: 1915
Description: Text on the basketball reads: "Wausau Cardinals '15." Five young men are sitting on small stools for a studio portrait. The man in the center is wearing sh...
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Czar and Czarina of Russia

Date: 1890
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Maria Feodorovna.

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