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| Date: | 05 12 1889 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Nelson Dewey on a cabinet card. He is wearing a suit and has a long white beard. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The home of Governor Nelson Dewey, built in 1842 and later owned by Miss Abbey Phelps. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | William McFarland's second wife, Sela Nelson McFarland, sitting with her infant son Joseph. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Secretary Jennie Nelson seated at her desk in the offices of the La Follette, Harper, Roe, & Zimmerman law partnership. After Robert M. La Follette, Sr., w... |
| Date: | 12 1898 |
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| Description: | Attorney Albert G. Zimmerman in his Madison law office, dictating a letter to secretary Jennie Nelson. Until 1894 Zimmerman was the law partner of Robert ... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Half plate daguerreotype of Nelson Dewey (1813-1889). Waist -up, facing forward, wearing suit and with right arm resting on a surface. Dewey was Governor o... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Nelson R. Norton. He was born in Hampton, Washington County, New York, on November 8, 1809. Norton came to Chicago on Novem... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Dirt trail passing log shack that was probably the home of Michael and Madeline Cadotte. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a house on the banks of the Mississippi River at the base of rocky bluffs. Probably located between Alma and Nelson, along Beef S... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Rock formation, The Sphinx, on Stockton Island of the Apostle Islands. Steamer "Edna" in background on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A composite photograph of the members of the Wisconsin Senate and State Officers. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Hawks Tavern, also known as Hawks Inn, with men on the porch and trees in the yard on each side. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A two-story frame house with shuttered windows. Ellestad (born 1805 Ostreslidre, Valdres, Norway, died 1891 Blooming Grove) immigrated 1848 with his wife G... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Indians receiving payment. Seated on the right is John W. Bell. Others are, left to right, Asaph Whittlesey, Agent Henry C. Gilbert, and William S. Warren ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two views of the interior of the La Follette, Harper, Roe & Zimmerman law office. Mr. Zimmerman is sitting in his inner office; the lady in the foreground ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1864 |
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| Description: | Company D, Twenty-first Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Top row (left to right): John Buboltz, Spencer Orlup, J. Henry Otto, Lyman C. Wait, Andrew Jackson, W... |
| Date: | 08 01 1890 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing outdoors; a few of the men are holding baseball bats or catcher's mitts. The photograph has a number written on each man to id... |
| Date: | 08 18 1885 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk and his staff at the funeral of General Ulysses S. Grant in New York City. Present with Rusk, 5th from the left, and i... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | First and second grade children with their teacher, Miss Drinker, who was temporarily taking charge of Miss Ella Larkin's school. Taken in the front entran... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc... |
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