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R.L. Gregory

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of R.L. Gregory.
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Studio Portrait of Three Native Americans

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three Native Americans, two older men and a young girl, possibly Winnebagos. "Silbing Bear" is written on...
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Twin Children

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Description: Twins wearing hats, jackets, and pants are sitting and standing near a wooden box with food displayed on it.
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DeLaval Separator Trade Card

Date: 1895
Description: Trade card advertising a cream separator manufactured by the DeLaval Company. Features color illustration of the implement. The card dates to the company'...
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Leo Huberman

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Description: Casual portrait of Leo Huberman, founder and co-editor of the socialist "Monthly Review".
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James Overson

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length cabinet card portrait of James Overson, a private in C Company, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained fr...
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John O. Wraalstad

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of John Olson Wraalstad, a sergeant in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtai...
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Christian Jacobson

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Description: Vignetted waist-up studio portrait of Christian Jacobson, a corporal in Company I, Wisconsin 15 Infantry, in uniform holding his musket across his chest. T...
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Fred Pabst

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Description: Head and shoulders semi-profile vignetted portrait of Fred Pabst.
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The State Bank

Date: 1885
Description: External view of the State Bank, the first bank in Madison. A group of men are posed along the sidewalk in front.
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Listers Agricultural Chemical Works Card

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Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a woman in a bonnet holding a rectangular parasol. Text at bottom reads: "Pure Animal Bone Fertilizer."
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Moss-haired Girl

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Description: Woman coiffed as a "moss-haired girl" or a "Circassian beauty." A literary tradition exists for the Circassian beauties, but in the United States they achi...
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Portrait of Nelson Dewey

Date: 05 12 1889
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Nelson Dewey on a cabinet card. He is wearing a suit and has a long white beard.
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Portrait of Governor Washburn

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Governor Cadwallader Colden Washburn, Wisconsin's 11th governor. He is facing slightly towards the left and is wearing a suit, necktie...
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Elmina D. Slenker

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Elmina Drake Slenker. She is wearing a dark dress with a high, lace collar.
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Wedding Photograph

Date: 07 1864
Description: Full-length studio portrait of George Brumder and his wife, Henriette Brandhorst Brumder, taken around the time of their wedding, July 16, 1864. She is wea...
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Louis Agassiz

Date: 1884
Description: Oval-framed, waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, a biologist and geologist known for his studies of Earth's natural history.
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Willliam Francis Allen

Date: 1879
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of William Francis Allen, professor of ancient languages and history at UW-Madison. Dr. Allen had taught ...

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