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Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype. Head and shoulders portrait of Mrs. Augustus A. Bird. A pioneer woman who came from New York to Milwaukee by a team of horse... |
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Description: | Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype quarter-length portrait of Mrs. Crandall, pioneer settler of Sheboygan Falls. She is wearing a dark dress with a white lace c... |
Date: | 1868 |
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Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon Childs Lincoln. Full-length seated pose facing 45 degrees to the right, with left arm on cloth covered table and ... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Engraving of the Peck Cabin, after the painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. Caption at bottom reads: "First House in Madison. 1837." |
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Description: | Ferrotype/tintype of John Jay Smith and Mary A. Hoadley Smith, pioneer settlers of Sheyboygan Falls, Wisconsin. Both are seated, facing forward, with hands... |
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Description: | Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype of James McKesson, pioneer settler in Superior, Wisconsin. Waist-up portrait, seated, facing forward wearing a suit, tie, and... |
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Description: | Sixth plate ambrotype of Matilda Hood, first female settler in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in 1829. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward, ha... |
Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Leverett Steele Kellogg, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin pioneer in 1836, from Connecticut. Waist-up portrait, facing forward. He is we... |
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Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of five Sawyer sisters, Sylvia, Zernia, Anna, Artemus, and Cordelia. They are facing front, and are wearing striped or prin... |
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Description: | Sixth plate ambrotype. Waist-up portrait of Doctor John M. Henderson, seated, facing forward with torso turned slightly left. He is wearing a suit and tie,... |
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Description: | View across a cornfield towards a cabin and farm. A man is standing in the shade of a tree. A cone-shaped hill is in the background. Caption reads: "Pionee... |
Date: | 08 10 1954 |
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Description: | At the Sun Prairie Early Settlers' picnic at Angell Park, the oldest settler present was Julia McElroy, 89, pictured with her son, George McElroy. |
Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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Description: | Entering the grounds of the Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extens... |
Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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Description: | Attending the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economics Extension leader at t... |
Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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Description: | Talking to the ringmaster at a Ringling Brothers-Barnum and Bailey Circus show is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Economic... |
Date: | 09 06 1954 |
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Description: | Intently watching the performance at the Ringling Brother-Barnum and Bailey Circus is 96 year-old Nellie Kedzie Jones, an educational pioneer and Home Econ... |
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Description: | Photograph of a woodcut of the Eben and Roseline Peck cabin. It was built by or for Roseline, the first white settler in Madison. The drawing was inspired ... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | Elevated view of men, women and children ready to disembark ship. Original caption reads: "Determination to make good is written on the faces of the Wiscon... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "J.J. Bugge, Minne... |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | One of a group of images under the headline: "Matanuska Valley Colonists Wait for Mail, Carry Water, Haul Logs." Original caption reads: "You can't get wat... |
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