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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) in formal pose with her hair up and her hands clasped in front of her. |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mary Elizabeth Mears, also known as Nellie Wildwood. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Susan B. Anthony (standing), with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, five years after completion of their three-volume work entitled "History of Woman Suf... |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
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| Description: | Vignetted studio portrait of Mrs. Simon Kander, author of The Settlement Cook Book, wearing a hat. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Zona Gale (Mrs. William Breese) standing near a window and holding a rose in her left hand. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alice Kent Trimpey, an authority and writer on American decorative arts and historic dolls. |
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| Description: | Louise Leighton poses sitting at her typewriter. She is wearing a dress, necklace, ring and an embroidered handkerchief in her pocket. The typewriter sits ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A seated, full-length portrait in profile of Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears (1830-1907), early Wisconsin poet and author whose work was published under the pen... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of author Helen Jackson, pen name H.H. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl... |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whos... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as w... |
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| Description: | Profile portrait of Jane Addams, a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as well as the American Civ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jane Addams, reading a book. Addams was a social worker, political activist, and author. She was a co-founder of Chicago's Hull House, as well ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Seated profile portrait of American novelist Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and its sequels. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of actress and author Gladys Drew. She wears a dark hat with a plume on top which is tied underneath her chin. Gladys was the first wife of... |
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