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| Date: | 05 1887 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Assembly members of 1863. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | An engraving from a daguerreotype of Ulysses S. Grant. |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Engraving of portraits of Generals in the Union Army during the Civil War. U.S. Grant is in the center, with H.W. Halleck on his left, and clockwise from t... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Charcoal portrait of George Baxter Burrows. A Wisconsin State Senator (1878-1882) and real estate broker, he willed his twelve-acre Lake Mendota frontage e... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Pitt Lynde at the Wisconsin Assembly in 1866. Ten years later he introduced legislation for women's suffrage to U.S. Congress. In the b... |
| Date: | 02 15 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of the 1899 Assembly Chamber photograph, showing a row of legislators at their desks. Until well into the 20th century, individual legislators had n... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Quite possibly this is the "General view in the camp" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Guard"... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Nelson R. Norton. He was born in Hampton, Washington County, New York, on November 8, 1809. Norton came to Chicago on Novem... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States. Arthur was born on October 5, 1829 in Fairfield, Vermont, and di... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. at the age of 29 when elected to Congress in 1884. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Frederick Horn (1815-1893), a Democrat. He was a lawyer and editor of the Cedarburg Weekly News. His years of public service began in 1842 and ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | The marriage of bachelor President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom, his 21-year old ward, in 1886 captured the nation's romantic imagination, a sentimen... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Republican Louis P. Harvey, while he was Wisconsin secretary of state (1860-1861). Harvey became governor in January, 1862, but drowned in the ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institution... |
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