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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Ticket admitting a member of the Crawford County Agricultural Society along with his partner and their unmarried children under 21 years of age to the "Nin... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stoneware vase is ovoid-shaped with a flared rim. It is gray with a salt-glaze. The dark brown on the lower body and the top of the neck may be caused by a... |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | Front view of girl's faded gray coat with red velvet trim. Worn by Jane Larned (Williamson) Hague (born 1819) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mosaic in the north lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society. The Elzivirs, Amsterdam printers in 1620, were known by this illustration of a hermit ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mosaic in the central lobby floor of the Wisconsin Historical Society, near the statue "Forward." This is the printer's mark of the Riverside Press. It was... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | An album page decorated with a hand-painted stem of wild geranium flowers features four photographs of Stuart Fargo, age two years, and his sister Dorothy,... |
| Date: | 09 04 1899 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders photographic portrait of Stuart Fargo is mounted to a hand-painted album page. The watercolor painting is of four stems of blue cornfl... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Hand-painted poppies adorn an album page which features a photograph of Stuart, left, and Dorothy Fargo. In the photograph, Stuart is naked and has placed ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page features a photograph of Stuart Fargo at age two years. He is wearing a nightgown and is barefoot. There is a wicker chair on the le... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two photographs featuring Louise Mears (Mrs. Frank B.) Fargo holding her son Stuart are mounted on an album page decorated with hand-painted pussy willow t... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le... |
| Date: | 03 08 1898 |
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| Description: | An album page featuring five circular portraits of Stuart Fargo. At center is a head and (bare) shoulders portrait of him at age eight months. At the four ... |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Case (opened to show front and back) for daguerreotype made to resemble a bound book. Mother-of-pearl decoration on front in the form of flowers, stems and... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Aperture-type silhouette cut from ivory colored paper on black ground of unidentified man. Subject faces right (proper left) wearing a tie and ruffled shir... |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Copper plate physiognotrace of Carsten Tank, the father of Nils Otto Tank of Green Bay, Wisconsin. Subject faces left (proper right) wearing a coat, tie, a... |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Aperture type hollow-cut silhouette of Caroline A. Allcott Stone, sister-in-law of Dr. Increase A. Lapham. Subject faces right (proper left), and wears her... |
| Date: | 1837 |
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| Description: | Hollow-cut silhouette of Lydia C. Sawyer, who died Feb. 11, 1837 at age 22. Portrait faces right (proper left), with hair up, and a fringed collar. |
| Date: | 1844 |
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| Description: | Blueprint from aperture silhouette of Captain George Myrick (1767-1844) of Nantucket, Mass. He faces left (proper right) and is wearing a top hat and neckt... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | Hollow-cut silhouette, facing left (proper right), of Angeline Campbell Clark (Mrs. Ben Clark). Born at Hamer, NY, married Benjamin Clark in 1841. Born 181... |
| Date: | 06 27 1885 |
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| Description: | Menu for a dinner at the Parker House, given by the Commercial Club of Boston for the Commercial Clubs of Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis. Imprinted on ... |
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