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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her hair is pulled back, and she wears earrings, a white ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was a cigar manufacturer. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ann Willms (b. 1881) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is wearing a dress, necklace, earrings and ... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Embossed photograph (platinum print) of Fred Pabst. "Pabst, Frederick (Mar. 28, 1836-Jan. 1, 1904), brewer, business executive, b. Thuringia, Germany. He m... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Laura (Smith) Kaun (1875-1937) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is wearing a dress with ... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of a full-length studio portrait of Mrs. Alexander Mitchell standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a floor-length dark-colore... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite studio portrait of 1st Lieutenant Richard Cadell seated in a chair and wearing his military uniform. He holds a rifle in his right hand and... |
| Date: | 05 21 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of Elizabeth S. Jaques Upham (1815-1883), wife of Don A.J. Upham, Milwaukee Lawyer. The portrait is a three-fourths figure, hea... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Frederick Layton, at about age 50. Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher and ran the business until his retirement... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Frederick Layton standing on deck smoking a cigar while at sea in a Kodak #2 camera portrait by T.W. Ingersoll from St. Paul, Minnesota. The photographer's... |
| Date: | 02 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing a ruffled, flower printed dress. Grace was the niece of Elizabeth... |
| Date: | 02 1893 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing gloves, and a fur-trimmed cloak over a flower printed and ruffled dress. Grace was the ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Pabst (1836-1904). He is wearing a suit with white tie and a carnation boutonnierre. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Wisconsin's 17th governor, George W. Peck, on a cabinet card. He wears glasses and a suit, vest and necktie, and is standi... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Jonathan E. Arnold, pioneer lawyer of Wisconsin. Born February 16, 1814. Settled in Milwaukee, 1836. Died there June 2, 1869. |
| Date: | 08 1889 |
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| Description: | A key to the members of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers, consisting of a piece of paper with numbered circles punched through it. When this key is p... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite quarter-length vignetted portrait of Katherine Schloesser (later Estabrook), dated via caption to "about Civil War time." Schloesser was a ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A seated, three-quarter ambrotype portrait of George Brumder (1839-1910) wearing a suit, vest and necktie. He has a beard but no mustache. His shirt studs... |
| Date: | 07 1864 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders studio portrait of William C. Brumder (1868-1929), eldest son of George and Henriette Brandhorst Brumder. He is wearing a suitcoat, tie ... |
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