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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Portrait of J.A. Van Cleve, Regent of the University of Wisconsin who helped supervise the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin buildi... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Tintype portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), with her four children: Mary Virginia McCormick (seated at left, 1861-1941), Cyrus Hall McCormick,... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of prominent Winnebago man Spoon-de-Kaury, or Spoon Decorah. He is seated, holding a walking cane. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Leonard J. Farwell, Governor of Wisconsin 1852-54. Quarter length facing left, wearing full beard, coat, vest, tie, and white ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Pitt Lynde at the Wisconsin Assembly in 1866. Ten years later he introduced legislation for women's suffrage to U.S. Congress. In the b... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Ebenezer Brigham, founder of the first major community in the Blue Mounds of Wisconsin, which included a mine, frontier inn... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two women sitting in the "rest room" at the McCormick Reaper Works. A piano is in the background. |
| Date: | 03 1884 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Susan B. Anthony wearing a black dress. She is standing and leaning on the back of a chair. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of John Rugee, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | William Thomas Fish, who served as Madison's fire chief, 1867-1868. Although posed for a formal studio portrait, Fish is wearing his uniform and hat and h... |
| 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: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. |
| 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: | 1868 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots. |
| 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: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A formal photographic portrait of the Potowatomi chief Shab-eh-nay (Shau-be-na, or Shabbona), who died in 1859. Shab-eh-nay was photographed shortly before... |
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