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Everetta Bass in front of Family Home

Date: 1900
Description: Everetta Bass standing in front of the Bass family home, 131 East Montello Street. A portrait of President McKinley is hanging in the front window.
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Black Hawk Potawatomi

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite studio portrait of man posing on chair in front of a painted backdrop. He has a beard and is wearing a hat, jacket, and trousers.
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Copy Photograph of Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio head and shoulders portrait of a Ho-Chunk man wearing a winged-collar shirt, bow tie, fur collar coat, and hat.
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Ho-Chunk Man Wearing a Suit

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing with his right hand on a draped chair that also holds a hat. Hi...
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Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man Holding Liquor Bottle and Spherical Object

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing wearing an overcoat (duster) and hat. He is holding a spherical...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Posed Standing

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk men posed standing behind chairs draped with fringed cloth. The men are both wearing suits a...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Posed Sitting

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk men posed sitting. The man on the left is wearing a suit, bandana, and a hat, and the man on...
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Studio Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk men posed standing near a chair draped with a fringed throw. The man on th...
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Dr. Fredrick A. Cook

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Description: Explorer Dr. Fredrick A. Cook (6/10/1865 – 8/5/1940) in fur-lined coat with hood. Cook is notable for his claim of having reached the North Pole on 4/21/19...
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Alexander B. Keyes

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Description: Vignetted quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Alexander B. Keyes, 1st Battalion, Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery. He is weari...
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Bernhard (Bernt) J. Madsen

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Description: A vignetted, quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Bernt J. Madsen a sergeant in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtain...
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Peter Ofstedal

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Peter Olson [as written on published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, Volume 1 and Regimental Descriptive ...
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Horseback Portrait of General Robert E. Lee

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Description: Copy of a painting of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) on his horse, Traveller. The original painting was found in Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of ...
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Woodrow Wilson and Wife

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Description: News photograph of Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) and his second wife, Edith Wilson (1872-1961), walking.
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Ole Nustad Johnson

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Description: Waist-up cabinet card portrait of Ole Nustad Johnson [as written on the photograph backing; also written as Ole Johnson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20, pu...
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Students and Teacher Displaying Portrait of President

Date: 1924
Description: A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard.
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Hans Hanson

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Description: Vignetted, quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Hans Hanson, a corporal in Company G, Wisconsin 15th Infantry. The following information was obtained fr...
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Lieutenant H. Pryale

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor portrait of Lieutenant H. Pryale of the 310th United States Army Engineer Corps, C Company, wearing a heavy coat and gloves, as well as a fur hat. ...
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Shirley and a Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger standing next to an outdoor decorated Christmas tree. Several of her presents are placed at the base of the tree.

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