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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair. |
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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
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| Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Ezra S. Carr (1819-1894), one of the first members of the University of Wisconsin faculty as well as a member of the board of regents. |
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| Description: | Edmund Eisenscher (1909-1995), posing with his dog. |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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| Description: | Homer Bigart, (1907-1991) award winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of William F. Vilas posing with one hand on a law book and the other inside his long overcoat. |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ... |
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