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| Date: | 04 1884 |
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| Description: | An engraving depicting the impressment of American seamen by the British Navy during the period before the War of 1812. The image shows a group of American... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a dead or wounded Civil War soldier created as a preliminary study by one of the Milwaukee panorama painters active during the 1889s.... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Photographic calling card of George B. Merrick, Company A, 30th Wisconsin Infantry. Includes an embossed image of a Civil War medal on the left, with a fla... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of three Union Civil War soldiers drinking from and holding canteens. The painting is the work of one of the German panorama artists ac... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed waist-up portrait of Lars K. Aaker, a Norse immigrant, farmer, Civil War veteran and Minnesota state legislator. He emigrated to the United Sta... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of a Civil War soldier aiming a rifle, as seen from the rear. The study was created as part of the work of a group of German panorama a... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Photograph from an original painting of Colonel William (Billy) Stephen Hamilton, M. Smith Photography in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Son of Revolutionary War hero ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was born on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, and di... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of James T. Lewis. Lewis was Wisconsin's 9th governor and one of the four governors of Wisconsin during the war. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Charles King, wearing his dress uniform as an enlisted Army Officer during the American Indian Wars. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Jacob Witting, Jr., was born January 15, 1837 in Renhoff, Prussia. He was a soldier in the Iron Brigade during the Civil War. Jacob is posing standing with... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of 1st Lieutenant Charles H. Meyerhoff, Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry, wearing eyeglasses and a badge for the Gr... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry at a reunion. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Jefferson Davis sitting in a chair on the porch of his residence. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho... |
| Date: | 05 1887 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Richard Adams, a member of the 16th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company "F." |
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