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Actress as Indian

Date: 1857
Description: A woman dressed in Indian headwrap with feather, wrapped in a blanket, for a performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," written by Mary Elizabeth...
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Mary Elizabeth Mears

Date: 1855
Description: Waist-up portrait of Mary Elizabeth Mears, also known as Nellie Wildwood.
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Mary Ann Hall McCormick

Date: 1850
Description: Portrait of Mary Ann Hall McCormick (1780-1853), wife of Robert McCormick (1780-1846). Mary Ann and Robert McCormick were the parents of inventor and indus...
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Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne

Date: 1856
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne. Daughter of Charles Minton Baker of Lake Geneva. Taken in New York before her family jour...
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Elizabeth Waddy Noyes

Date: 1855
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Elizabeth Waddy Noyes, wife of Charles Cowper Noyes and mother of William Brayton Noyes. Waist-up portrait. She is sitting sid...
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We Saw You at Dental Auxiliary Dance

Date: 11 26 1855
Description: Guests attend a dinner and dance sponsored by the auxiliary of the Dane County Dental Society. Seated at the table are Dr. Harris and Ruth Keel. Stopping t...
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Elizabeth S. Jaques Upham

Date: 05 21 1850
Description: Quarter plate daguerreotype of Elizabeth S. Jaques Upham (1815-1883), wife of Don A.J. Upham, Milwaukee Lawyer. The portrait is a three-fourths figure, hea...
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Lydia Remsen Draper

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864...
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Allcott Family

Date: 1852
Description: Whole plate daguerreotype of the Allcott family. The parents, Sidney S. and his wife Julia, are seated. Sidney faces partially left, Julia forward. Their t...
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Unidentified Woman

Date: 03 08 1852
Description: Ninth plate ambrotype of an unidentified woman. She is sitting in a chair and is wearing a dark dress with large lace collar and brooch at the neckline, an...

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