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| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of young Lieutenant Colonel Arthur MacArthur Jr., F & S, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, posing in a Civil War uniform next to a chair. |
| Date: | 08 1864 |
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| Description: | Soldiers relax around the Army Post Office at the quarters of the Chief Ambulance Officer, Ninth Army Corps. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View looking north up Third Street near Market Square. There are five boys and a horse in the middle of the road. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a young Horace Palmer in uniform. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View of the shoreline on the Walker Castle grounds. Two men are boating while a young boy fishes from the shore. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of exterior of General Lee's residence. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Envelope compares a young man of the North, on the left, to a young man of the South, on the right. The young Northern man is working with an older man on ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | An aunt, Mary, finds two boys, Johnny and Joe, fighting. One boy is an obvious loser. The text below reads: "Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing?... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Tintype portrait of Josh Sullivan of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, member of the 3rd Wisconsin Infantry band. He is seated leaning on a drum. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Two girls in long dresses on a rock formation. The river and far shoreline is in the background. Text on left reads: "A Visit to Devil's Lake, Sauk County,... |
| Date: | 04 1861 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders vignetted portrait of William Upham, taken when he enlisted in the army at the age of 19. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon C. Lincoln as a young drummer boy in the Union Army. Three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing forward. He is... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Ferrotype/tintype of John C. Frazee, 1857-1929. Quarter-length portrait facing slightly left, wearing suit coat, vest and white shirt. Hand-coloring on che... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of a boy and a girl standing together. The girl has her hand on the boy's shoulder. These are the children of Joseph a... |
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