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Drawing

Jane Addams of Hull House

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

Christian Abrahamsen Painting

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Description: A man poses holding an easel, next to a portrait painting. The artist is Christian Abrahamsen, a Norwegian-born painter who was active in Chicago. The subj...
Photograph

Mary Mathews Adams

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Description: Photograph of a framed painting of Mary Mathews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works i...
Print

David Adler

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Description: Lithographic portrait of David Adler, a retail clothier, one of the organizers of the Wisconsin National Bank, one of the founders and a vice-president of ...
Photograph

Solomon Adler

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Description: Engraving of a portrait of Solomon Adler, a clothing merchant and brother to David Adler. He assisted in conducting the first Jewish service in Wisconsin, ...
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Robert Aitken

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Description: Engraved lithographic portrait of Robert Aitken, a printer and the first to publish an English-language Bible in the United States, in 1782.
Drawing

John Peter Altgeld

Date: 1893
Description: Engraved lithographic quarter-length portrait of John Peter Altgeld, a Union veteran of the Civil War, judge, lawyer, and politician. Altgeld was a Progres...

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