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| Description: | Portrait of Homer Bigart,(1907-1991) award winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush. |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Clara Bewick Colby in a long, black skirt, holding a book. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Tintype/ferrotype waist-up portrait of Knudt Johnson of the Dodgeville Guards, later known as Company C, 12th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Gold ... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Reuben Gold Thwaites, second Director of the Wisconsin Historical Society. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Menominee Indian chief Aquanama and Menominee Indian Paul Ackenebowa, seated, facing front, both wearing hats, coats and n... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Chet Huntley, manning a portable television unit, for coverage of 1956 political conventions. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Indian (probably Winnebago) women. The woman on the right is holding a baby on her lap. The women are... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a couple, who are the parents of Tom (?) Wallace. The woman is sitting with a blanket around her shoulder... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of Valda Valkyrien, known as "The Movie Star of Denmark." |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of Crystal Eastman. |
| Date: | 02 21 1930 |
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| Description: | Chanticleer Orchestra managers, each with a dog at his side, sitting on the front steps of a building with an awning overhead that reads "Chanticleer." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Frontpiece photograph of Carlos Montezuma from "A Review of Commissioner Leupp's Interview...1905" by Carlos Montezuma. |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Helen and Wanda Muir, daughters of John Muir. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman photographer catches reflections of herself, a young girl and a woman in a bedroom bureau mirror. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Four photographs with handwritten captions. The photograph at top left is a group portrait with a caption that reads: "Soon after reaching Waco, the 1st Wi... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing three photographs of John A. Commons (presumably) in his World War I uniform, standing with another man with a Christmas tree, ... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Portrait, head and shoulders of Frederick Jackson Turner, historian, scholar, and writer. As a freshman at the University of Wisconsin. |
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