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Harriet Douglas Whetten

Date: 1860
Description: Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18...
Photograph

American Farm Yard In Winter

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi...
Painting

Caroline Klauber

Date: 1868
Description: Oil painting of Caroline Klauber, wife of Samuel Klauber.
Photograph

Jerusha Wilcox Sturgis

Date: 1866
Description: Full-length portrait of Jerusha Sturgis, standing near a chair. The wife of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; Died ...
Photograph

Indian Delegation at the White House

Date: 02 23 1867
Description: President Andrew Johnson and members of various Indian delegations and the White House staff pose outside the White House together.
Photograph

Myron P. Roberts Drugstore

Date: 1864
Description: Street scene with customers in front of the M.P. Roberts Drugstore and C. Baack Flour and Feed Store.
Print

Woodcut of Women with Child

Date: 1865
Description: A woodprint of women with frightened child entitled "The First Dip Into Salt Water."
Photograph

Vinnie Ream with Lincoln Bust

Date: 1866
Description: Vinnie Ream posing in her studio in Washington, beside her bust of Lincoln which had been brought from the White House after the assassination.
Print

Mrs. Cordelia A.P. Harvey

Date: 1866
Description: Head and shoulders engraving of Cordelia Harvey.
Book or Pamphlet

Younglove, Massey & Co. Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Younglove, Massey & Co., manufacturers of agricultural equipment. The cover features an engraved illustration of a hors...
Print

Fire Company Invitation

Date: 02 04 1864
Description: Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman...
Photograph

22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 09 22 1862
Description: The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati.
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Abraham Lincoln's Funeral in Chicago

Date: 05 01 1865
Description: Albumen print of Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession. Thirty-six maidens in white surround Lincoln's hearse as it passes through the funeral arch, probabl...
Photograph

Family behind Picket Fence in front of House

Date: 1869
Description: A family stands behind a picket fence in the yard of a frame Greek Revival house with latticework on its porch. There are two wood trellises in the yard.
Photograph

Exterior View of House

Date: 1869
Description: Ladies sit on the front porch of a long two-story house. One woman is next to a baby carriage. On the porch's roof is a man with a ladder painting the hous...
Photograph

Group with Horses Pose near House

Date: 1869
Description: On the left a woman sits side saddle on a horse, and on the right two men are on a wagon hitched to two horses. Between them are a group of men in front of...
Photograph

Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
Description: This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth...
Photograph

Family on Garden Path

Date: 1869
Description: A view up a garden path leads past family members to a bracket-style frame house with outbuildings.
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Family in front of House

Date: 1869
Description: A family sits around a table in a yard. One woman holds a stereoscope in her lap. Behind them is a frame house with shutters on some of the windows, and a ...
Photograph

Family Gathered by House

Date: 1869
Description: A family is standing and sitting in a yard of the porch of a upright and wing frame house that has a diamond shaped attic window, two doors in front and ha...

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