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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of "Cothren, Montgomery Morrison (Sept. 18, 1819-Oct. 2, 1888), lawyer, politician, judge, b. Jerusalem, N.Y. He moved with his parents t... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Lyman C. Draper. This shows him at the time he assumed the position of Historical Society superintendent, at the age of 38. |
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| Description: | Painted portrait of Orland Steen Loomis in a suit and blue necktie. |
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| Description: | A two-man team of sawers work on a massive tree with a crosscut saw (right) while a man with an an axe waits to trim branches. The trunks are then cut down... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Milo Milton Quaife (1880-1959), serving as director and editor from 1914 to 1920. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | On an excursion to the South in November 1859, Hölzlhuber made the three-day trip on the steamboat Planet from St. Louis to New Orleans. In the harb... |
| 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: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Seifert's watercolor is fairly large, measuring 27" wide by 21" high, and provides a detailed depiction of a nineteenth century Wisconsin farm. The small s... |
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| Description: | A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses. |
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| Description: | A team of three Belgian horses pulling a Deering binder through a field during the oat harvest. A farmer is driving the team, and other workers are in the ... |
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| Description: | A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to... |
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| Description: | Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ... |
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| Description: | Oil portrait, life-size, of Col. Stephen V. Shipman, of Chicago. |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting depicting Lyman Draper, first Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, surrounded by volumes of his collections and look... |
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| Description: | Watercolor painting depicting Lyman C. Draper, first Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, riding a horse on a trip to collect historical... |
| Date: | 1998 |
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| Description: | This scene was painted by Seferina Contreras Klinger from memories of her grandmother, Aurelia M. Contreras, and her uncle, Fidel Contreras, who worked pic... |
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