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| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a fisherman with his lure, spear, and catch. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length formal studio portrait of Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frances (Mrs. Lucius) Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of George W. Peck, 2nd Lieutenant, Company E, 4th Wisconsin Cavalry. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of George W. Peck standing next to a chair. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Lt. Frank A. Haskell, adjutant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry. In 1862 Haskell became aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon who commanded the Iron Brigade. Wh... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Ezra S. Carr (1819-1894), one of the first members of the University of Wisconsin faculty as well as a member of the board of regents. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was single in Mason City, Iowa. She was first a teacher and then became Superintendent of Schools ther... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Quarter-plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length portrait of John H. Fonda, settler in the Prairie Du Chien area. He is sitting facing front, with one hand in... |
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