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| Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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| Description: | Five-acre cabbage field of Martin Anderson near Grantsburg, with several frame houses in the background. Mr. Anderson is holding a prize-winning head of ca... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Grandma Martha (Goetsch) Buelke posed in front of a barn with her favorite cow. She is holding a milking pail. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length formal studio portrait of Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait in front of a painted background of Anna Fox, who married William F. Vilas of Madison, Wisconsin. This photograph was taken in Washi... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ellen Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Nell), co-founder of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Jane Lloyd Jones (also known as Aunt Jen), co-owner of the Hillside Home School, an early progressive school in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait in front of a painted background of a young woman with the notation: "from cousin Lora." Unknown relationship to the Dousman family. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Violet Dousman in an evening dress. Oldest daughter of Louis and Nina Dousman. Born December 7, 1874; died January 14, 1940. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Louis de Vierville Dousman, only son of Nina and Louis Dousman. Born February 17, 1882; died August 11, 1955. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length profile portrait of a man with goatee wearing a fez. The details in the face, hair, and clothing are highlighted in charcoal. Unknown relat... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of Helen and Mary Mears in profile. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the druggist J.N. Hegeman, who was the proprietor of several drugstores in New York City in the late 19th century. Hegeman was also once the se... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony (standing), with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, five years after completion of their three-volume work entitled "History of Woman Suf... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Harold Fowler McCormick with his first wife Edith Rockefeller McCormick. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Portrait of three generations of McCormicks: (L to R) Emmons Blaine, Jr., (1890-1918), Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), and Anita McCormick Blaine (186... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oshkosh native Helen Farnsworth Mears, age 20, at the time of the unveiling of her sculpture, "Genius of Wisconsin," on display at the southwes... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition. |
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