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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of Belle Case La Follette wearing a black lace dress. This photograph was taken about 1885, the year in which her husband, Robert M.... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Born August 1, 1861, Samuel Sturgis was the younger brother of Nina Sturgis Dousman. He attended West Point Military Academy and had a distinguished career... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mamie Sturgis, younger sister of Nina Sturgis Dousmann, wife of H. Louis Dousman. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Seated portrait in front of a painted background of a young woman with the notation: "from cousin Lora." Unknown relationship to the Dousman family. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Profile portrait of Jerusha Sturgis, wife of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; Died July 4, 1915. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Jerusha Sturgis standing, mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; died July 4, 1915. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol as it appeared during the early 1870s. Close scrutiny of the entrance (whether it is the north or south entrance cannot b... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Abraham Lincoln, from the original daguerreotype owned by his son, Robert T. Lincoln. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Thure Kumlien at his work table in the Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien is surrounded by taxidermied birds and is at work stuffing another. |
| Date: | 05 1888 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite of Amanda Joanna McCormick Adams (Mrs. Hugh). |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of a three-quarter length portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams, age 18, dressed in coattails with his arm on the back of an elaborately carved ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ann Willms (b. 1881) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is wearing a dress, necklace, earrings and ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Alma Seipp posing seated in an ornately carved chair. She wears a floor-length gown with high collar and ribbon trim. Alma is a dau... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Dr. Otto L. and Emma Sibylla Seipp Schmidt pose for a vignetted head and shoulders portrait around the time of their marriage. Otto wears a suit and tie. E... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders profile portrait of William Wesley Young. Young started the student newspaper, the "Daily Cardinal." He was also the University of Wisco... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Publius V. Lawson, of Menasha, standing and leaning against a chair. Portrait was taken when he was a senior at the University ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Harrison Reed. Inscription at bottom of print reads, "Harrison Reed. After 30 years experience, 'a fool among fools.'" |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Herbert Paul Brumder (1885-1967), the youngest child of George and Henriette Brandhorst Brumder. He is wearing a double breaste... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of James Monroe Gillet, around the time he founded the newspaper The Fond du Lac Whig. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Portrait of James Monroe Gillet, a lawyer and founder of the Fond du Lac Whig. Caption reads: "James Monroe Gillet, Born April 24, 1821. Married Emm... |
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