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Abram D. Smith

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Description: Waist-up seated portrait of Abram D. Smith.
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. Family Portrait

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Description: Formal studio portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., his wife, and their two sons. McCormick was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from...
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...
Photograph

Daisy Bates with President Eisenhower

Date: 1958
Description: Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference.
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. Wright

Date: 07 10 1956
Description: Unretouched waist-up portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright taken at the same time that each sat individually with Reierson for new passport photograp...
Photograph

Dream Drum Dancers

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Description: Five Ho-Chunk performers in front of cloth barriers or tents. A powwow group from the 1908 Homecoming. The five are full brothers according to the 1881 tri...
Photograph

Mrs. Roseline Peck

Date: 1874
Description: Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck.
Photograph

Daisy Bates, Little Rock Nine and Dr. James Levy

Date: 1958
Description: Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine with officers of the NAACP at their 49th annual convention. Mrs. Bates and the nine students received an award for the...
Photograph

Gerhard and Christine Gesell

Date: 1879
Description: Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charles Smith and Wife

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, Charles Smith, and his wife. The man is posing standing by a prop stone wall, and is wearing a suit jacket, vest w...
Photograph

Portrait of Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1905
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man sitting and wearing modern dress, flanked by two Ho-Chunk women standing and wearing several necklaces and sh...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Henry Thunder and Soldier Woman

Date: 1905
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posing sitting and wearing a suit jacket, tie, and hat. Next to him on the rig...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man Rufus Twin

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, Rufus Twin of the Nebraska band. He is posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop and is wearing a suit jacket, tie, ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Little Wolf Woman, Henry Greencrow, and Bella Hall

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man posing standing and wearing a suit and bow tie, flanked by two young Ho-Chunk women standing in front of a painted ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Frank Thunder and Two Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women wearing several necklaces, earrings, and shawls, sitting in front of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing and wearin...
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man and Two Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a Ho-Chunk man standing in front of a painted backdrop and wood prop fence. The women are ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a young Ho-Chunk woman and two young Ho-Chunk men posing standing in front of a pain...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of the Martin and Green Families

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk couples. Albert Henry (HahNahKah) is standing with his wife, Martha Henry. Sitting in front ...
Photograph

Portrait of a Young Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women and Frank Thomas Jefferson (Ma He Ha Na Cho E Kah), standing, and Fred Kingswan, sitting. The Ho-Chunk woman si...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Woman

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk man posing sitting on the left wearing a suit and necktie, and a Ho-Chunk woman posing i...

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