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Governor Nelson Dewey

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Governor Nelson Dewey.
Painting

Lee Dreyfus

Date: 1983
Description: Portrait painting of Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Wisconsin's 40th governor.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1863
Description: Wisconsin State Assembly members of 1863.
Photograph

Grover Cleveland

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Grover Cleveland.
Print

William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt

Date: 1899
Description: Campaign poster with the title "Posterity" for Theodore Roosevelt and William McKinley featuring their portraits. In the center is an illustration of a wom...
Photograph

William Howard Taft

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Description: Portrait of William Howard Taft.
Print

President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America and Generals

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Description: Jefferson Davis, center, surrounded by, clockwise from the top: Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee, A.P. Hill, J.E.B. Stuart, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. John...
Print

Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Portrait engraving of Ulysses S. Grant, "From the photograph preferred by himself, 1869."
Print

Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Portrait engraving of Ulysses S. Grant.
Photograph

Edward Salomon

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Description: Head and shoulders studio portrait of Edward Salomon wearing a suit and tie.
Photograph

John F. Potter

Date: 1856
Description: Quarter-length oval portrait of John Fox Potter. He was born in Augusta, Maine, on May 11, 1817. Potter came to Wisconsin in 1836 and resided in Potter's...
Photograph

William Arthur Jones

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Description: William Arthur Jones, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1897-1905.
Photograph

Emmanuel L. Philipp

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Description: Portrait of Emmanuel L Philipp.
Photograph

Lucian H. Palmer

Date: 1907
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Lucian (or Lucien) H. Palmer from the 1907 composite image of the Wisconsin Assembly. In 1906, Palmer (a Republican) was the...
Photograph

Dewey Presidential Campaign Train

Date: 1944
Description: Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, the Republican Party presidential candidate aboard the campaign train, making a stop in Baraboo.
Photograph

Benjamin Butts Wisconsin Legislature Assembly Portrait

Date: 1877
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Butts, which was part of a composite portrait of Officers, Clerks and Employees of the Wisconsin Assembly. He worke...
Photograph

Wisconsin Senate

Date: 1862
Description: Composite of photographs of the members of the Wisconsin Senate of 1862. At the top is a depiction of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Banner in center top rea...
Photograph

Guy W. Dailey

Date: 1877
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Guy W. Dailey, which is a detail of a composite photograph of members of the Wisconsin Assembly.
Print

Governor James T. Lewis

Date: 1865
Description: Engraved portrait of Wisconsin Governor James Lewis. Lewis' signature is below the engraving, and underneath the signature is printed: "Governor of Wiscons...
Photograph

Horatio Gates Howard Reed

Date: 1870
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Horatio Gates Howard Reed, member of the 1870 Wisconsin Assembly.

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