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Inch School

Date: 1898
Description: Students and teachers pose in front of Inch School.
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Teacher Mary Davidson Bradford

Date: 1892
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Mary Davidson Bradford, a high school teacher.
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Professor Edwin Courtlandt Bolles, Historian

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin C. Bolles (1836-1920), professor of English and American History at Tufts. He is best known for amassing a vast archive o...
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Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland, Geologist and Physician

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American scientist. Kirtland, among many other exploits, worked on the 1837 Ohio geolog...
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Professor Alexander Kerr, Classicist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Kerr (1828-1919), Scottish-born Professor of Greek at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Appointed to his...
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Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
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Second Ward School

Date: 01 23 1869
Description: Second Ward School with a teacher and students in the schoolyard.
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Teachers' Seminary

Date: 1867
Description: 1868-1875. Founded by Dr. Joseph Salzman (featured in the vignette at left, teaching). Vignette, lower left, features St. Francis Seminary, founded in 1856...
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Native American Class Portrait

Date: 1894
Description: Group portrait of Native American school students and teachers.
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Pupils of the 2nd Ward School

Date: 1882
Description: A group portrait of students at the 2nd Ward School. The students are posing in front of the building, with girls in the front (straw hats on laps), boys i...
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Ira Colby

Date: 1860
Description: Ninth plate ambrotype quarter-length portrait of Mr. Ira Colby, a teacher of the Union School in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He has a beard and is wearing a suit ...
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Hayward Indian School Group

Date: 1897
Description: Group portrait, perhaps consisting of students and faculty at Hayward Indian School. One man in the back row holds a cello.
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First and Second Grade Class

Date: 1888
Description: First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran...
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School Class at Merrimac

Date: 1890
Description: A large class stands outside a school. Front row, left to right: Stella Nuzum, unknown, unknown, unknown, Mabel Devlin, Mary Devlin, unknown, Alice Odekirk...
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Fourth Ward

Date: 1884
Description: 1. ? Rarnsdall 2. Florence Ketchem 3. Hattie Stephenson 4. ? Carver 5. Addie McConnell 6. Delia Lawerence 7. Madeline Slightam 8. Annie Kingston 9. Maud Va...
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Class Group Portrait Featuring Emma Schmitt

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in...
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Theodore Bernhard

Date: 1879
Description: Sixth-plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Theodore Bernhard, from Watertown, Wisconsin. Educator, member of the assembly in 1854. He is facing to...
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Rev. David Lowry

Date: 1840
Description: Waist-up portrait of Reverend David Lowry. Lowry was appointed to be a teacher for the Ho Chunk (Winnebago) Tribe by Andrew Jackson. In 1834, he started a ...
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Rachel Alsworth Ross

Date: 1875
Description: Portrait of Rachel Alsworth Ross, a schoolteacher who lived in Virden, Illinois. Rachel was the mother of UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ro...

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