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| Date: | 1838 |
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| Description: | Ox-drawn cart in which Mr. and Mrs. Salmon Upson traveled from Connecticut in 1838. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype portrait of John Brady of Virginia, son of Captain Samuel Brady. Half-length, facing front with torso turned slightly to right. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Lyman Draper (1815-1891), an American historical collector and librarian. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | A formal photographic portrait of the Potowatomi chief Shab-eh-nay (Shau-be-na, or Shabbona), who died in 1859. Shab-eh-nay was photographed shortly before... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of George W. Peck standing next to a chair. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Henry Clay Taylor (1838-1864), 21st Wisconsin Infantry, Company A, wearing a Union soldier's uniform. Henry was a bookke... |
| 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: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Standing portrait of Edward M. Bartlett, lieutenant colonel of the 30th Wisconsin, taken during the regiment's assignment at Camp Randall, 1862-1864. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Colonel C.A. Wood posing for a full-length studio carte-de-visite portrait in his Union uniform. His right hand is resting on a plinth, and he is holding h... |
| Date: | 08 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of William H. McIntosh, Company F, 22nd Wisconsin Infantry, at the age of 26. |
| Date: | 01 25 1864 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Anna Martin Gourlay (1858-1864). She is seated, facing forward, wearing a short-sleeved dress, and holding a doll... |
| 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: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted portrait of Brigadier General John McArthur. At the start of the Civil War he was a colonel of an Illinois volunteer regiment, but after the Batt... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Peter, "the Interpreter," a studio portrait of a Potawatomie Indian in western attired taken by W. Snell in Washington, D.C., possibly on the occasion of ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Ceylon Childs Lincoln. Full-length seated pose facing 45 degrees to the right, with left arm on cloth covered table and ... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Captain George Henry Preble. Starting in 1861 Preble commanded the gunboat Katahdin, serving with Rear Admiral... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Photographic reproduction of a collage of 128 men and four buildings. Collage includes text in Norwegian, with one sentence in English: "Entered according ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a cigar manufacturer. |
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