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| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
| Date: | 09 06 1882 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Dr. Laura Ross Wolcott, the first president of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length engraving of Colonel Theodor C. Rodolf. |
| 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: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Portraits of several New York College of Pharmacy faculty members from 1886: W. DeF Day, P.W. Bedford, C.F. Chandler, C.W. Parsons, Joseph Schrenk. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), possibly by Lawton S. Parker. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Charcoal portrait of George Baxter Burrows. A Wisconsin State Senator (1878-1882) and real estate broker, he willed his twelve-acre Lake Mendota frontage e... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Several people posed among farm implements in front of the machinery and insurance business of Gustav Reinhardt and Charles Pelunek (a.k.a. "Bohemian Charl... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Portraits of twenty men involved in the Haymarket Square Riot and aftermath [left to right, top line]: Geo. Ingram, Attorney; Julius S. Grinnell, State's ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was born on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, and di... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Philetus Sawyer, congressman, U.S. Senator, and Oshkosh lumber baron (1816-1900). During the 1880s and 1890s Sawyer was one of a small group of conservati... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) men. One of them may be Yellow Thunder. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The marriage of bachelor President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom, his 21-year old ward, in 1886 captured the nation's romantic imagination, a sentimen... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Collage of images featuring a view of the Nicollet House, a view down a main street, and portrait photographs of O.K. Hall, James Kane, and August Zachau. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of J. Wesley Carhart of Racine, Methodist minister, physician, and inventor of a steam-powered automobile in 1871. Although impractical, ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Engraved invitation to the reception and promenade concert held in celebration of the election of President James A. Garfield (left) and Vice President Che... |
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