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Isabel Bacon La Follette
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Studio portrait of Isabel Bacon La Follette, familiarly known as Isen, taken about one year before her graduation from the University of Wisconsin. She married Philip La Follette, the son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Mrs. La Follette is wearing a tea dress and eyeglasses and seated on a bench.
1920
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Isabel Bacon La Follette
1938
Quarter-length portrait of Isabel Bacon La Follette, Mrs. Philip F. La Follette, dating from the year in which her husband ran unsuccessfully for re-election as governor of Wisconsin. Like her mot...
Isabel Bacon La Follette Speaking
January 15, 1935
Isabel Bacon La Follette, the wife of Philip La Follette and daughter-in-law of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., was as politically and socially involved as her mother-in-law, Belle Case La Follette. In...
Belle Case La Follette
1905
Formal, full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Belle Case La Follette, the wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Although the negative jacket identified the portrait as 1903-1904, the ...
Isabel Bacon La Follette on farm in Mazomanie
1942
Isabel Bacon La Follette holding a rake on the farm Philip purchased in northwestern Dane County.
La Follette Family Listens to the Returns
November 1924
Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with Isabel Bacon La Follette (Mrs. Philip La Follette), Mrs. John J. Blaine, Philip Fox La Follette, Governor John J. Blaine, and Robert M. La Follette, Jr., listening ...
