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Increase Lapham Examining a Meteorite

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin...
Painting

Montgomery M. Cothren

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Description: Waist-up portrait of "Cothren, Montgomery Morrison (Sept. 18, 1819-Oct. 2, 1888), lawyer, politician, judge, b. Jerusalem, N.Y. He moved with his parents t...
Painting

Abram D. Smith

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

Abraham Lincoln

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Description: A full-length seated portrait of Abraham Lincoln in the form of a print from the "likeness of a photograph."
Photograph

Children of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1904
Description: Group portrait on porch of the three children of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936), and his wife, Harriet Bradley Hammond (1862-1921). Pictured, left t...
Print

John Quincy Adams

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Description: Engraving from a painting of John Quincy Adams.
Photograph

Men Sewing

Date: 01 08 1956
Description: Men sew as a joke at a party for a prospective bridegroom. Jack Bayliss, with bow tie, is facing the camera.
Photograph

Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1904
Description: Formal portrait of Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
Photograph

Baseball Team

Date: 05 06 1931
Description: Group portrait of H.W. Simon baseball team in uniform, standing and sitting indoors.
Photograph

Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw...
Photograph

Elderly Man

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Description: Portrait of an older man sitting in a chair.
Photograph

Judge Proctor's Courtroom

Date: 1933
Description: Judge Roy H. Proctor, Superior Court, in the Dane County Court House.
Photograph

Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl...
Photograph

Camp 20

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window.
Photograph

Portrait of Two Men on Chair

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of two seated men with their legs crossed toward each other. One man has his arm over the chair back, and is sitting on the arm of the chai...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Wife

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h...
Photograph

Robert La Follette Reading a Newspaper

Date: 1924
Description: Publicity photograph of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., for his independent, third-party candidacy for the Presidency in 1924. La Follette is outdoors reading,...
Photograph

Workers with Newspaper Photographs

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Description: Newspaper workers perusing hundreds of photographs. There are three men holding some of the photographs and the rest are mounted on the walls around them.
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 a Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family. In the background is a painted backdrop. Names (sitting) David Bow Littlesoldier (Maw Jhay Mau Nee Kah). ...

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