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Painting

William A. Barstow

Date: 1856
Description: Portrait of Wisconsin governor, William A. Barstow 1854-1856.
Painting

Benjamin C. Eastman

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Description: Waist-up formal portrait of Ben C. Eastman, 1812-1856. He was a Congressman from Wisconsin from 1851 to 1855.
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 04 10 1865
Description: Waist-up portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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

Wisconsin Assembly of 1880

Date: 1880
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 09 1864
Description: Formal portrait of Abraham Lincoln, seated.
Print

Abraham Lincoln

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Description: Portrait engraving of Abraham Lincoln.
Print

Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Portrait engraving of Ulysses S. Grant, "From the photograph preferred by himself, 1869."
Print

Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Portrait engraving of Ulysses S. Grant.
Photograph

Edward Scofield

Date: 1913
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edward Scofield, Republican Governor of Wisconsin, 1897-1901.
Print

Benjamin Harrison

Date: 1890
Description: A head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, 1889-1893. Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, on a farm ne...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

La Follette as Congressman

Date: 10 1890
Description: Engraved illustration from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly depicting the members of the House Ways and Means Committee during the deliberations on th...
Painting

Frederick W. Horn

Date: 1872
Description: Portrait of Frederick Horn (1815-1893), a Democrat. He was a lawyer and editor of the Cedarburg Weekly News. His years of public service began in 1842 and ...
Photograph

Leonard J. Farwell

Date: 1860
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...
Photograph

Louis P. Harvey

Date: 1860
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 ...
Photograph

Professor Ezra S. Carr, Geologist

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institution...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 02 09 1864
Description: Abraham Lincoln in one of the famous portraits known as the Brady Profiles.
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1863
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Abraham Lincoln standing.
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 1865
Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly

Date: 1865
Description: Composite of portraits of the men of the Wisconsin Assembly.

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