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Elderly Chippewa

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Description: Pussafuss, an elderly Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first curator of p...
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T.G. Mandt

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Description: Quarter-length formal studio portrait of T.G. Mandt.
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Studio Portrait of a Young Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk man with short hair posed sitting with his arms crossed and wearing a light-colored shir...
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Thomas Forbush

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Description: Three-quarter-length portrait of Thomas (Tom) Forbush, Company E, 61st Illinois Infantry, holding his musket. He was better known as a river pilot on the S...
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John McArthur

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted portrait of Brigadier General John McArthur. At the start of the Civil War he was a colonel of an Illinois volunteer regiment, but after the Batt...
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Tractor Demonstration

Date: 05 17 1916
Description: Men are watching the demonstration of an Avery Company tractor pulling a Hoosier seed drill (?) across a field at Newsorn Farm during the annual meeting of...
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Franz Hölzlhuber

Date: 1856
Description: Waist-up portrait of Franz Holzlhuber.
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Group Portrait of Men and Women on Balcony

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Description: Half plate daguerreotype of fourteen people, seven men and seven women, posing behind a balcony balustrade, with a paisley-bordered blanket or shawl draped...
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Resting On the Trail

Date: 07 26 1911
Description: The Gang stopping on the portage trail to rest. Doc Copeland is in the foreground with a dog, (possibly Diadem) and Clay Judson is on the left.
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Collection Box for Cigars

Date: 1914
Description: A man is standing on a sidewalk in front of a storefront and donating a cigar to a collection box. A sign on the collection box reads: "Cigarren für unsere...
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Ruined Church in Sabac, Serbia

Date: 1915
Description: Soldiers posing amid the rubble of a destroyed church in the City of Sabac, Serbia.
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Dr. Jungels

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Description: Dr. Jungels riding his camel, Hedschin, in the desert.
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Djemal Pascha and Colonel Frankenberg

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Description: Djemal Pascha, the senior commander of Turkish forces on the Suez Canal, in the desert with Colonel Frankenberg.
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Life in Skutari

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Description: Returning Turkish merchant reopening his store in Skutari, Albania.
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Art During War

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Description: The pursuit of art during wartime. Professor Richard Anders modelling a bust of General von Haeseler, Berlin.
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Downstream from Lark's Hotel

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Description: A man, woman, and two girls are relaxing on a bluff overlooking the Wisconsin River. A dog is lying on the ground between two trees in the foreground.
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Edward J. Carlier

Date: 1932
Description: Standing, three-quarter length portrait of Edward J. Carlier (1893-1954) posing with an elbow resting on tires and a pencil and papers in his hands. Establ...

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