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Family at Board Fence

Date: 1875
Description: Detail from original of part of the family and the house. Original caption reads: "Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a par...
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Village Across Pond

Date: 1875
Description: Detail of original. Original caption reads: "A view of the village from a nearby bluff across a pond. Men, women and children, standing spaced apart, are p...
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Chief Skenandoah

Date: 1875
Description: Portrait of Chief Elijah Skenandoah, a Turtle Clan chief of the Oneida nation. He moved to Wisconsin from New York in the 1830s, along with a group of Onei...
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Dr. William F. Adams

Date: 1875
Description: Vignetted semi-profile carte-de-visite portrait of William Adams, a theologian, educator, and co-founder of Nashotah House, an Anglican seminary.
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Edward P. Allis

Date: 1875
Description: Carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturi...
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Rachel Alsworth Ross

Date: 1875
Description: Portrait of Rachel Alsworth Ross, a schoolteacher who lived in Virden, Illinois. Rachel was the mother of UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ro...
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Old Bridge Area Manufacturing Plants

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ...

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