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| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., campaigning in Cumberland. La Follette led the reform faction in Wisconsin's Republican party and in 1900, he was elected gover... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., speaking to a crowd from back of a wagon. This image is one of a series of views of his appearance at a fair in Cumberland, Wi... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. He is wearing a hat and a suit without the coat. It was in part du... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with his fist in the air, speaking from the back of a wagon. It was in part due to his vigorous speaking style that La Follette... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man. |
| Date: | 02 09 1864 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated. |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
| Date: | 08 13 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Abraham Lincoln before he grew a beard, taken from an ambrotype. |
| Date: | 06 03 1860 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length profile portrait of Abraham Lincoln. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Grover Cleveland around the time he first took office as president of the United States. |
| Date: | 08 18 1885 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk and his staff at the funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. Present with Rusk, 5th from the left, and i... |
| Date: | 04 27 1891 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, with Mrs. Harrison and a group of men and women on the parapet of Sutro Heights, San Francisco,... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Leonard J. Farwell (1819-1889), Madison businessman-promoter and Wisconsin's only Whig governor (1852-1854). When this salted paper portrait was taken, Far... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Republican Louis P. Harvey, while he was Wisconsin secretary of state (1860-1861). Harvey became governor in January, 1862, but drowned in the ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | General Simeon Mills. He was born in Norfolk in Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1810, and came to Wisconsin in the spring of 1836. Simeon Mills was the ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of members of the Wisconsin Assembly. |
| Date: | 04 1865 |
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| Description: | Shrouded Lincoln funeral car stopped along the way to Springfield, Illinois. |
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