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| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Holy card with watercolor of a wreath of white flowers encircling an open book resting on a cross and crown of thorns. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Chach-scheb-nee-nick-ah (Young Eagle) looking off to the right. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two smiling Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) women identified as Clara St. Cyr, a Nebraska Winnebago, lef... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1903, the year in which a constitutional amendment approved expansion of the court from five to seven judg... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Cooksville Cornhuskers baseball team in front of a painted backdrop. Top left to right: Unknown, Johnny Sweeney, Tim McCarthy(?), Charle... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Young woman facing to the right with her head turned toward viewer, hand on hip, wearing wire-rimmed eyeglasses, a flower in her hair, in long white dress ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Formal, full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Belle Case La Follette, the wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Although the negative jacket ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The parlor of the Lucius Fairchild residence at 302 Monona Avenue in Madison, filled with artwork and furniture collected by the Fairchilds during their re... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Oil on paper painting of a butterfly. Bierstadt would apply oil paints directly to the paper to form one wing of a butterfly, then fold the paper in Rorsch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Oil on paper painting of a black butterfly by Alfred Bierstadt. Bierstadt would apply oil paints directly to the paper to form one wing of a butterfly, the... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American child (probably a girl) wearing a white dress. Text written on the back of the photog... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ho-Chunk man Branching Horns in full traditional dress. Caption at bottom: "Among the Winnebago ... |
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