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Girl Standing in Snow

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of a young girl, clothed in a winter coat, bonnet, and muff, with fake snow on the ground and falling all around her.
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Seminole Native American Family

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Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Billy Bowlegs and his family. They are all wearing native Seminole clothing. Caption reads: "Billy Bowlegs...
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Three Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Full-length portrait of two Ho-Chunk women standing on either side of an older Ho-Chunk woman who is sitting. Each woman is wearing a long skirt, a blouse,...
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William Goetsch Family

Date: 1875
Description: William Goetsch family portrait copied from tintype. Left to right: Ernstina Goetsch Bigalk, standing, Lydia Goetsch Volkman Blatter, sitting, Hannah Goets...
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Karlslyst Family Portrait

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Description: Quarter-length oval studio group portrait of six young people, three boys and three girls. The girls are wearing fancy dresses and the boys are wearing sui...
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Emma and Elena Schmitt

Date: 1901
Description: Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena.
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Emma and Elena Schmitt

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Description: Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but t...
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Muscoda High School Basketball Team

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ...
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Two Wilson Girls

Date: 1895
Description: Studio double portrait of two “Wilson girls”.
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Unidentified Woman in Formal Wear

Date: 1908
Description: Unidentified lady, seated, wearing an off-the-shoulder short-sleeved ballgown, which appears to have fur decorating the collar and shoulders. She is restin...
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Three Boys in Robes

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three boys in black robes each holding a book. The boys stand with two potted plants, and a prop wall of s...
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Henry A. Cooper

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype. Full-length portrait of Henry A. Cooper, as a young boy, standing in front of a backdrop. He is wearing a coat, scarf, hat, and what...
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Henry A. Cooper, Drummer Boy

Date: 1847
Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype. Three-quarter length portrait of Henry A. Cooper, as a young boy, standing in front of a backdrop. He is wearing a military...
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James Day and Boy

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of James Day (left) and an unidentified boy, possibly Lionel Warrington Day. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forwar...
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Ceylon C. Lincoln

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon Childs Lincoln as a young soldier in full Civil War uniform. Full-length portrait. He is standing in front of a pai...
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William D. Ash and Family

Date: 1861
Description: Half plate ambrotype of William D. Ash and his family. Left to right: 1. Helen Mar, later Mrs. E.P. Lamb in Roberts, Wis. 2. William H. Ash, later of Rober...
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Henry A. Cooper

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Henry A. Cooper as a drummer boy in the Union Army. Three-quarter length portrait of him standing in front of a backdrop, ...
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Franklin Hoyt

Date: 1862
Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of Franklin Hoyt (1846-?). Waist-up portrait facing front, with left hand on his lapel. He is wearing a suit, small bow tie, and cap ...
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William F. Gray, David E. Kiser, William D. Lamont, and Henry Chappel

Date: 06 19 1886
Description: Ferrotype/tintype portrait of three students with their principal, taken in a studio in front of a painted backdrop, the day after their high school gradua...
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E.S. Baker

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of E.S. Baker. Three-quarter length portrait facing forward, he is standing and resting an arm on a column plinth (a studio p...

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