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William Best Hesseltine
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Informal portrait of William Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin History Professor (1932-1963) and President of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (1961-1963) seated in front of a bookshelf and smoking a pipe. He died at age 61 in Dec. 1963.
1960
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Professor William B. Sarles
May 25, 1947
Portrait of Professor William B. Sarles, agricultural bacteriologist, and newly appointed chairman of the athletic board.
Professor Richard Ely
Waist-up portrait of Professor Richard Ely, head professor of political economy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Katharine Allen
1900
Vignetted quarter-length semi-profile carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine Allen, assistant professor of Latin at UW-Madison. Katharine was the daughter of historian and UW-Madison classics profes...
Katharine Allen
1900
Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine Allen, assistant professor of Latin at UW-Madison. Katharine was the daughter of historian and UW-Madison classics professor William F...
Professor Philo M. Buck, Jr.
May 13, 1947
Professor Philo M. Buck, Jr., who started the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
