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Painting

John W. Quinney

Date: 1849
Description: Oil portrait of John W. Quinney (1797-1855).
Photograph

Herman Anderson

Date: 1861
Description: An oval-framed, seated studio portrait of Anderson Herman, a private in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform, holding a musket across his chest. T...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
Painting

Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1867
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick.
Print

McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick over an illustration of ...
Print

Colonel Theodor C. Rodolf

Date: 1881
Description: Quarter-length engraving of Colonel Theodor C. Rodolf.
Painting

Three Civil War Colonels

Date: 1897
Description: A painting of the three colonels of the 26th North Carolina Regiment. John R. Lane (born July 4, 1835), Harry King Burgwyn (born October 3, 1841), Zebulon...
Print

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1890
Description: Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936) by the American Biographical Publication Co., Chicago, Illinois. Mr. McCormick was the son of in...
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...
Print

Ulysses S. Grant

Date: 1865
Description: An engraving from a daguerreotype of Ulysses S. Grant.
Print

Union Generals of the Civil War

Date: 1867
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...
Drawing

George Baxter Burrows

Date: 1880
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...
Print

Chester A. Arthur

Date: 1885
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...
Print

President & Mrs. Cleveland Trade Card

Date: 1886
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...
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...
Print

D.F. Tyrrel and Sound Money

Date: 10 22 1896
Description: "Sound Money!". A broadside advertising a talk by D.F. Tyrrel of Marinette, Wisconsin, in behalf of the Republican Presidential candidacy of William McKinl...
Photograph

Jeremiah Rusk

Date: 1862
Description: Engraved portrait of Jeremiah Rusk, governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Officers

Date: 1899
Description: Composite photograph of eight Wisconsin State officers with a decorative background.
Photograph

Charles Stewart

Date: 1861
Description: Seated portrait of Corporal Charles Stewart (b. 1832), Company B, 8th Wisconsin Infantry, wearing the one of the grey uniforms in which Wisconsin's first e...
Photograph

Chris Early

Date: 1861
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Corporal Chris Early, Company K, 13th Wisconsin Infantry. Died on May 18, 1865 of a disease.

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