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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Magnus Swenson. He was a Norwegian immigrant who made his name in business and as an inventor. He served on the Wisconsin Capitol Buildi... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrant women at the Market Square wearing traditional, national clothing. In the background are brick buildings. A sign on one building reads: "C... |
| Date: | 05 30 1851 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Siggelkow Family of copied from a lost daguerreotype. In the back row from left to right are Augusta Scharlotte, Johann Adolph, Marie Louis... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrant standing near a team of horses eating hay in Market Square. He is wearing work clothes. Large brick buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls and hat... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrants, wearing Polish national dress, with a wagon in Market Square. Other men in the square are wearing suits, long coats, and hats. The women... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Polish immigrants in Market Square wearing Polish national dress. The men are wearing suits, coats, and hats. The women are wearing dresses, shawls, hats a... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Polish immigrants in Market Square with horse-drawn lumber sledges and hay wagons. Commercial buildings are in the background. A sign on o... |
| Date: | 11 22 1848 |
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| Description: | Frontispiece from a passport issued to Benedict Goldenberger from the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. He left Aargau in 1851, went to Massachussetts, and th... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Historic re-creation painting of two Pilgrims approaching an old fort converted into their first meeting house. Painted by W.L. Williams. |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lamont and his wife, Scottish immigrants. Waist-up portrait, seated facing forward. He is wearing a suit and tie, and she is w... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Edward Gilley, an English immigrant and farmer near Cooksville. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of a man seated, with a woman standing next to him. Caption reads: "Rev. Jas. Gillespie & wife. Preached in Necedah over 50 years ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed waist-up portrait of Lars K. Aaker, a Norse immigrant, farmer, Civil War veteran and Minnesota state legislator. He emigrated to the United Sta... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Reverend Monseigneur Peter Matthias Abbelen, who was vicar general of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and later spirit... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Oval-framed tintype portrait of John Alcock, a professor of phonography/shorthand at Bayless' Business College of Dubuque. He moved to Platteville and foun... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John Peter Altgeld, a Union veteran of the Civil War, judge, lawyer, and politician. Altgeld was a Progressive Democrat and the 20th Governor o... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Reverend Ole Amble, a Norwegian immigrant and Lutheran pastor. Amble emigrated to the United States in 1871. He was ordained a year la... |
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