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Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1890
Description: Quarter-length formal studio portrait of Lucius Fairchild.
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Leonard J. Farwell

Date: 1865
Description: Waist-up portrait of Leonard J. Farwell.
Photograph

Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1870
Description: Waist-up portrait of Lucius Fairchild.
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Carrie Lane

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa.
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Capitol Interior (third) — Supreme Court Chamber

Date: 1893
Description: Interior view of the Supreme Court room in the third Wisconsin State Capitol, with Chief Justice William Penn Lyon seated in the center, and Justices J.B. ...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Sr., as University Student

Date: 1879
Description: Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin State Assembly in 1861

Date: 1861
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1863
Description: Wisconsin State Assembly members of 1863.
Photograph

Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1885
Description: Formal studio portrait of Belle Case La Follette wearing a black lace dress. This photograph was taken about 1885, the year in which her husband, Robert M....
Photograph

Old Abe Sitting on a Cannon

Date: 1875
Description: Old Abe, eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, perched at the end of a cannon looking left with the American flag in the background. Serve...
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Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1870
Description: Waist-up portrait of Lucius Fairchild during his tenure as Secretary of State of Wisconsin. Fairchild's arm was amputated after he was injured at the Battl...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln

Date: 04 10 1865
Description: Waist-up portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Photograph

Susan B. Anthony

Date: 1870
Description: Portrait of Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday.
Photograph

Susan B. Anthony with Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Date: 1891
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...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly of 1881

Date: 1881
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of men in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
Painting

Solomon Juneau

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of Solomon Juneau. He was born in Lower Canada on August 9th, 1793, Juneau came to Michigan (then), now Wisconsin, in Septembe...
Photograph

James Duane Doty

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of James Duane Doty, who was a Wisconsin judge, territorial governor, congressman, and land speculator.
Photograph

The Wisconsin State Assembly in Session

Date: 02 15 1899
Description: The Wisconsin State Assembly in session in the second Wisconsin State Capitol, with observers looking on from the gallery.
Photograph

Confederate Commanders

Date: 1884
Description: A composite of Civil War Confederate Commanders, this is one of the first known examples of a composite photograph and of the use of photography in adverti...
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Leonard J. Farwell

Date: 1853
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Leonard J. Farwell, Governor of Wisconsin 1852-54. Quarter length facing left, wearing full beard, coat, vest, tie, and white ...

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