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| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | Waa-Na-'Taa or The Foremost in Battle, Chief of the Sioux Tribe. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Prairie du... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Austin E. Quinney with a dog. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | An oval-framed, seated studio portrait of Anderson Herman, a private in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform, holding a musket across his chest. T... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Oil portrait of Nathaniel Ames, a former Revolutionary War soldier. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the governor in the executive chamber. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Civil War soldier Nils (Niels) J. Gilbert, Company A, of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, believed to have been taken in October... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A painting of the three colonels of the 26th North Carolina Regiment. John R. Lane (born July 4, 1835), Harry King Burgwyn (born October 3, 1841), Zebulon... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Portrait of James Garland Sturgis in his West Point(?) cadet uniform. Born January 24, 1854; son of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and younger brother of Nina Stu... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Born August 1, 1861, Samuel Sturgis was the younger brother of Nina Sturgis Dousman. He attended West Point Military Academy and had a distinguished career... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Abdih-Hiddisch, a Minatarre Chief, posed holding an ax. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Noápeh, an Assiniboin Indian, holding a bow and arrows, and wearing a horned headdress. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Mexkemahuastan, Indian Chief of the Gros-Ventres of the prairies. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | The Mandan Indian, Máto-Tópe, adorned with insignia of his war-like deeds. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | An engraving from a daguerreotype of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | James K. Proudfit, adjutant general of Wisconsin, in uniform. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of an oval-shaped pendant with a portrait of General Daniel Brodhead (October 1736-November 1809) of Pennsylvania. General Brodhe... |
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