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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), possibly by Lawton S. Parker. |
| Date: | 03 10 1909 |
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| Description: | Drawing of James Horlick (1844-1921), was done by Sir Leslie Matthew Ward (1851-1922). Under the pseudonym "Spy," Ward contributed portraits of famous peop... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of J.E. Merrion, Superintendent of International Harvester's Deering Works, in front of a painted backdrop. Mr. Merrion succeeded Chris Bor... |
| Date: | 10 09 1914 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emanuel A. Adler, Milwaukee manufacturer. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of A.J. Mayer, Milwaukee manufacturer. |
| Date: | 09 18 1914 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Charles F. Rausen, Milwaukee merchant. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Peter Reiss, Sheboygan merchant. |
| Date: | 07 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Zalmon G. Simmons, Kenosha manufacturer. |
| Date: | 10 19 1914 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated side profile studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James F. Trottman, Milwaukee lawyer and manufacturer. |
| Date: | 09 28 1914 |
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| Description: | Seated waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emanuel A. Wurster, Milwaukee company secretary and treasurer. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey, Wausau manufacturer. He is sitting in a chair at a ta... |
| Date: | 02 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of fathers and sons with Governor Oscar Rennebohm in the governor's reception room of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Farm families from eleven... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | T.R. Moudler, manager of IH San Antonio motor truck district sitting next to "Jess." The men are likely in the office of an International Harvester dealers... |
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| Description: | Probable group of pearl buyers posed curbside. The partial wall of the building behind the men has a window and the bricks are painted with an advertisemen... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Unidentified business or professional man seated in a chair in front of a roll-top desk. He is wearing round eyeglasses, and there is a typewriter on the d... |
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| Description: | Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two European American men and two European American women. Identified, from left to right, as: Fran... |
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| Description: | Ferrotype of Frederick Layton posing on a bench holding an umbrella in front of a painted background. Frederick Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher a... |
| Date: | 09 1965 |
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| Description: | Gene Coffman, with a paintbrush in his mouth and holding a package of Disguise Stix©, standing next to "Abstract Girl" in his garage on Sommers Avenue. Th... |
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| Description: | Illustration art of eleven men in business suits and hats, showing head and shoulders in an "S" curve. They are all smiling against a white background. |
| Date: | 05 11 1979 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and woman posing together; the man is standing and the woman is sitting. Behind them are several display cases with various items, some o... |
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