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Description: | Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank. |
Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
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Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
Date: | 1854 |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Lyman C. Draper. This shows him at the time he assumed the position of Historical Society superintendent, at the age of 38. |
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Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
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Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). This portrait was reportedly a favorite of his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923). McCormick was a Chic... |
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Description: | Sherman Booth (1812-1904), abolitionist editor and leader. |
Date: | 03 15 1899 |
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Description: | Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ... |
Date: | 11 1887 |
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Description: | Group portrait of German painters relaxing in the studio of the American Panorama Company, during a break from painting the Jerusalem cyclorama depicting t... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery. |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers. |
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Description: | A portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. Sholes was an editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later continued this work in Milwa... |
Date: | 03 20 1973 |
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Description: | Artist's courtroom depiction of Karlton Armstrong. He is sitting with his arms folded and legs crossed, with the judge visible in the background. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of John Gould Anthony (1804-1877), head of the Conchology department at the Museum of Comparative Zoology from 1863 until his deat... |
Date: | 1866 |
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Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of James Hall (1811-1898), American geologist and paleontologist. Thought to be the top American invertebrate paleontol... |
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Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead (1799-1880), Illinois-based physician and botanist. Mead, a pioneer in both the fields of medicine and b... |
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