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Portrait of Samuel Marshall

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Description: Quarter-length formal oval painting of Samuel Marshall, (1820-1907), banker, co-founder and President of the Marshall & Ilsley Bank.
Painting

Lyman C. Draper

Date: 1854
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.
Print

American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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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 ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. At the center is a portrait of Cyrus McCormick inside an egg shape with...
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of Increase Lapham.
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Increase Lapham.
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Increase Lapham

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Description: Oval head and shoulders vignetted portrait of Increase A. Lapham.
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Catalog Cover

Date: 1895
Description: Front cover of catalog featuring a framed portrait of Cyrus H. McCormick surrounded by foliage. A putto is pulling away a drape from the portrait with one ...
Photograph

Franklin Gilson

Date: 1883
Description: Photograph of an oil painting portrait of Franklin Leander Gilson, a lawyer, judge, and Republican politician. Painting was made by Robert Schade in 1883, ...
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott

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Description: Lithographic portrait of John S. C. Abbott, an American historian, and pastor. He was the author of The Mother at Home, The History of the Civil ...
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Austin Adams

Date: 1878
Description: Lithographic portrait of Austin Adams, a lawyer who became an Iowa Supreme Court justice (1876-1892), Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court (1880-1892), ...
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David Adler

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Description: Lithographic portrait of David Adler, a retail clothier, one of the organizers of the Wisconsin National Bank, one of the founders and a vice-president of ...

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