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Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Painting

Nellie Jane Manning

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Description: Full-length portrait of Nellie Jane Manning.
Painting

Mrs. Austin Quinney and Her Daughter Harriet

Date: 1849
Description: Portrait of Jane Quinney, (born Ashotomay) wife of Austin E. Quinney, chief of the Stockbridge nation, and their daughter, Harriet.
Drawing

Jane Addams of Hull House

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Description: Jane Addams holding an open book, surrounded by immigrant children.
Print

Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl

Date: 1832
Description: Dacota Woman and Assiniboin girl.
Photograph

Portrait of Native American Family

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of the Tom Walker family. They are dressed in indigenous clothing.
Photograph

George Henry Williams

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a portrait of George Henry Williams (deceased child at 18 months), son of Henry C. and Diana T. Williams, and may be the cousi...
Photograph

Unveiling a Painting of Governor Schmedeman

Date: 01 05 1935
Description: Portrait of Governor Albert G. Schmedeman, painted by Merton Grenhagen, in the gallery of governors at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Mary and Shurley, daugh...
Photograph

Portrait of Boy and Girl

Date: 1878
Description: Seated indoor portrait of boy in checked suit and girl in plaid dress, perhaps taken at Dahl's DeForest studio.
Photograph

Woman Holds Framed Portrait with Family Group

Date: 1875
Description: A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot...
Photograph

Sioux Papoose

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Description: Portrait of a Sioux papoose.
Photograph

Three Native Americans

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Description: Portrait of three unidentified Native Americans.
Photograph

Pima Agency Children

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Description: A group of uniformed children pose on agency grounds.
Photograph

Funeral Wreath for Boy and Baby

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Description: Funeral wreath surrounding two studio portraits of a boy and baby,with two attached panels "Our darling" above and "AT REST" below. Possibly a grave stone...
Photograph

Young Girl

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Description: Harry Miller's little girl at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon
Photograph

Cayuse Infants

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Description: Crying Cayuse infants wrapped in Pendleton blankets.
Photograph

Cherokee Woman

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Description: Miss Carlotta Shackelford, "The Cherokee Duchess."
Photograph

Two Young Cherokees

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Description: Two Cherokee children embrace for a portrait.
Photograph

Cherokee Boy

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Description: C.W. Turner, Jr., a young Cherokee "Rough Rider" who wished to go to war.
Photograph

A Young Choctow

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Description: A Choctow child poses with a cat.

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