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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sherwin Gillett (b. 1879) when he was a baby. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a hat, high-collared blouse, jacket, and long skirt sits in a rowboat while rowing a small boat, presumably on Lake Mendota. A cat sits at ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert B. (Alice Russell Hobbins) Porter posing for a waist-up formal portrait. She is wearing a light-colored lace dress with a lace headpiece. She i... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Rosellah Smith (Donnel) Bowman. Mrs, Bowman was married to Samuel Hunter Donnel, architect, from 1854 to 1860. Samuel and Rose... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Colonel C.A. Wood posing for a full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait in his Union uniform. His right hand is resting on a plinth, and he is holding h... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Wisconsin Assembly of 1889 member Edward Slupecki. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Kent Wood, with a pipe in his mouth and sitting in a cart, posing with two dogs. All three are in profile. The side of a building is be... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Outdoor quarter-length portrait of Thomas Turvill sitting in a chair. He is resting his head on his right hand. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View up dirt road towards a young man standing near the Turvill shop. The tree-lined road leads up a slope towards another building under trees. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders semi-profile studio portrait of Blanchard Harper. |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Andrew Dieringer, a member of the Wisconsin Assembly. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, the 15th governor of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 04 1896 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Llewellyn Miller, George L. Crook and Ralph Miller all posing with bicycles and standing outside their bicycle shop at 121 King Street.... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Ina Judge wearing her wedding dress while standing in front of a painted backdrop or in a church. Ina Judge married Stanley Hanks o... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length, formal studio portrait of George S. Parker of Janesville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Engineer Daniel Sage and fireman Omro B. Mills standing next to Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Engine No. 511. The locomotive was formerly No. 62... |
| Date: | 01 1892 |
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| Description: | George Goodvillage and his wife posing on King Street. In the background is a row of commercial buildings. The building on the left is a Saddlery. The tele... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Photographic reproduction of a collage of 128 men and four buildings. Collage includes text in Norwegian, with one sentence in English: "Entered according ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Bradford W. Gillett, who was a teacher, shopkeeper, and principal of schools in Middleton, Belleville, and Avoca. He was active... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Henry Gill, a Madison and Milwaukee attorney, who also served the Wisconsin Central Railroad as tax and insurance expert... |
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