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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Darst Conover, the first wife of University of Wisconsin faculty member, Obadieh M. Conover. She died in Madis... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Eliab Dean, (b. 1819 - d. 1900) an early Madison businessman. Dean came to Madison in the 1840s to work for his cousin, ... |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders portrait of John W. Sterling (1816-1885), one of the first members of the faculty of the University of Wisconsin and briefly a... |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Esther Green Smilie Vilas (born ca. 1819), the wife of Levi B. Vilas, a prominent Madison businessman, and the mother of... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite full-length studio portrait of Charles David and Harrie Farwell Atwood, the sons of David Atwood of Madison, Wisconsin. They are posed on a... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Full-length, carte-de-visite portrait of John H. Lathrop (1799-1866), first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Lathrop's tenure was marked by contr... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lu... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha W. Keyes (1828-1910) a prominent Madison attorney who was appointed Madison postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From ... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph, Kate, and William, the three children of Madison attorney, postmaster, and Republican Party boss Elisha W. Keyes and hi... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Caroline Stevens Keyes, the first wife of Madison political leader Elisha W. Keyes. The couple was married in 1854 and Mrs. Key... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portait of Joseph Keyes, the son of Madison political leader Elisha W. Keyes and Caroline Stevens Keyes. Although photographed in a seated ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of George B. Delaplaine (1814-1895), of Madison, Wisconsin. Delaplaine arrived in Madison in 1838 after having worked in... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated woman in a long-sleeve printed dress and shoulder-length side curls, holding a sleeping baby on her lap with her righ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Maria A. Morrison, born Maria Amelia Hickox in 1800, the wife of Wisconsin pioneer James Morrison. With her husband, Mrs... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Morrison Dean, the wife of Nathaniel Dean of Madison. Mrs. Dean was born in Dodgeville in 1829, moved to Ma... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the living quarters at Taliesin, Frank Lloyd Wright's residence and studio. Taliesin is located in the vicinity of Spring Green, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ho-Chunk man Branching Horns in full traditional dress. Caption at bottom: "Among the Winnebago ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of French Indian men who made the trip to Washington via the Mississippi River to sign the 1854 Treaty ceding lands in both Minnesota and Wisconsi... |
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