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Boss Elisha Keyes
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Carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha W. Keyes (1828-1910) a prominent Madison attorney who was appointed Madison postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From the patronage associated with this position and his chairmanship of the Republican Party, Keyes was able to dominate Wisconsin politics during the 1860s and 1870s.
Bodtker, James F. (Madison, Wis.)
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Keyes Family Children
Carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph, Kate, and William, the three children of Madison attorney, postmaster, and Republican Party boss Elisha W. Keyes and his first wife Caroline Stevens Keyes.
Joseph Keyes
Carte-de-visite portait of Joseph Keyes, the son of Madison political leader Elisha W. Keyes and Caroline Stevens Keyes. Although photographed in a seated position, all of the details of his checke...
Caroline Stevens Keyes
Carte-de-visite portrait of Caroline Stevens Keyes, the first wife of Madison political leader Elisha W. Keyes. The couple was married in 1854 and Mrs. Keyes died in 1865. They were the parents of ...
Esther Smilie Vilas
Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Esther Green Smilie Vilas (born ca. 1819), the wife of Levi B. Vilas, a prominent Madison businessman, and the mother of Senator William Freeman Vilas.
Jairus Fairchild
1862
Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lucius Fairchild, governor and Civil War gen...
Chancellor John H. Lathrop
1859
Full-length, carte-de-visite portrait of John H. Lathrop (1799-1866), first chancellor of the University of Wisconsin. Lathrop's tenure was marked by controversy with the faculty and legislature ov...
