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John Williams
circa 1860-1869
Sixth plate ambrotype of John K. Williams. Quarter-length portrait, facing front.
Portrait of Unknown Man
circa 1870-1879
Sixth plate ambrotype of a quarter-length portrait of a man. Hand coloring on cheeks and lips.
Archie Case
circa 1860-1869
Quarter plate ambrotype. Three-quarter-length studio portrait of Archie Case sitting sideways in a chair, with right wrist over the back of the chair. Hand coloring on cheeks.
Eleazer Williams
1858
Ferrotype/tintype of Eleazer Williams (circa 1788-1858). He faces slightly left and wears a dark suit with stand collar. Cheeks and lower lip hand tinted.
The Wade House
1860
The oldest known image of the Wade House (taken from Ambrotype) with the Sheboygan/Fond du Lac Plank Road in the foreground.
Wade House
1955
Front view of the Wade House. The Wade House, one of the earliest stagecoach inns in Wisconsin, was built between 1847 and 1851 by Sylvanus Wade. It became the most important stop on the plank road...
