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Syvert A. Lee

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait of Syvert A. Lee, a private in Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform next to a prop baluster and railing. The fol...
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Lieutenant A.T. Lamson and Lieutenant E.E. Sill

Date: 1864
Description: Lieutenant A.T. Lamson of Madison and Lieutenant E.E. Sill as they appeared when they reached the Union lines after escaping from Confederate prison at Col...
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Ole Steensland

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Description: A seated, waist-up studio portrait of Ole Steensland, a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform. The following information was obtained ...
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Reverend Elgar F. Mindorff

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Reverend Elgar F. Mindorff, not long after being released from a Japanese military prison in China.
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Ruth Nelson and Red Cross Display

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Ruth Nelson, Red Cross motor corps volunteer, and the Red Cross display in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. Display features contents of the prisoner-o...
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Marine Robert M. Crabb

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: Marine Robert M. Crabb pointing to Japan on a map. He was home in Madison after serving as a war correspondent and being a prisoner of war for three years ...
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Henry Clay Taylor

Date: 1862
Description: Studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Henry Clay Taylor (1838-1864), 21st Wisconsin Infantry, Company A, wearing a Union soldier's uniform. Henry was a bookke...
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Hans A. Lageson

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Description: Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait, in front of a painted backdrop and with a prop fence, of Hans A. Lageson [as written on published of Roster of ...
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Bernhard (Bernt) J. Madsen

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Description: A vignetted, quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Bernt J. Madsen a sergeant in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtain...
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Herman Thoreson

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Description: Seated, waist-up cabinet card portrait of Herman Thoreson a private in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry wearing uniform and with a musket across his lap....
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Andrew Ellickson

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Description: Three-quarter length oval studio portrait of Andrew Ellickson, a private of Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform with bayonet sheathed on his sid...
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Hans Jacobson

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Description: Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Hans Jacobson, a private of Company C, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform and kepi [forage cap] displaying a “C” on ...
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Peter Johnson (Ellestad)

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Description: Head and shoulders oval studio portrait of Peter Johnson, a private in C Company, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained from the ...
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Amon Kjelsvik (Kjellsvig)

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Description: Waist-up oval studio portrait of Anon Kjellsvig [as written on the published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, Volume 1; also written as Amon Kjellsvig on th...
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Imprisoned Navy Nurses Come Home

Date: 03 1945
Description: Two nurses, Leona Jackson, left, and Mary Rose Harrington Nelson, right, return to Guam after being imprisoned in Los Banos, Philippines, for over two year...
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Simon A. Myhre

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Description: Waist-up seated oval studio portrait of Peter A. Myhre, a corporal in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The ...
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Ole Peterson

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders cabinet card portrait of Ole Peterson, a private in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform. The following information w...
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Christian Knudson Dicken

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Description: Three-quarter length oval studio portrait of Christian Knudson Dicken [as written on backing of photograph; also written as Christian Knudson on Descriptiv...
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Paul M. Paulson Slatten

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Description: Waist-up oval studio portrait of Paul M. Paulson Slatten [as written on backing of photograph; also written as Paul M. Paulson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume...
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Severt Peterson

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Description: Waist-up oval studio portrait of Severt Peterson [as written on backing of photograph and published roster: Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion (191...

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