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| Date: | 05 1875 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Hannah (Barber) Billinghurst (1832-1900) of Horicon. Hannah was the wife of lawyer Charles Billinghurst (1818-1865), who served... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The f... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Located at 321 Hanover Street, this house was occupied by George H. Paul as a homestead from 1866 to 1893. The house has an old fashioned hardwood frame, ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The residence of John Crapser Coleman, as remodeled in 1870. A large house is in the middle of the image, with a drive leading up to the left of the house... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders carte-de-visite of Ethelinda Marie Thorsen (1856-1947), age 16, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, daughter of John Thorsen (b. 1820), a lumberman... |
| Date: | 05 1878 |
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| Description: | George Brumder, in a three-piece suit and wearing pince-nez eyeglasses, is sitting in a swivel chair at a roll top desk. His unidentified secretary is sitt... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Julia Metcalf, in costume as Iphigenia from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigenie auf Taur... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Alice Tobey, in costume as Joan of Arc from Friedrich Schiller's The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans). |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lina Martin, in costume as Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Lillian Carpenter, in costume as Mignon from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wil... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Georgiana Yates Cramer ("Mrs. Jno L Cramer," according to caption), in costume as Charlotte von Lengefeld, wife of Friedrich Sc... |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Joseph Gilbert, in costume. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine F. Sherwood, in costume as Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea. |
| Date: | 04 21 1876 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Grant Martin and Katharine Sherwood, in costume as Hermann and Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and D... |
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