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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of a man with a feathered hat and scarf or kerchief. Identified as "Cao Tou See, an Ojibwa." |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic portrait of Fisher Ames, a Federalist politician. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1788, then a membe... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic quarter-length portrait of John Peter Altgeld, a Union veteran of the Civil War, judge, lawyer, and politician. Altgeld was a Progres... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Hiram Stores Allen, a businessman and settler in the Chippewa Valley. In 1856 he surveyed and plotted the town of Chippewa Falls, for which rea... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Washington Allston, pioneer of the American Romantic movement in landscape painting. He is depicted seated at a desk, wearing a coat. ... |
| Date: | 1842 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman, who is sitting with her left arm resting on a desk or table. She is wearing a jacket, hat, skirt, and pants. According to History o... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ojibwa chief Shingabawossin, who lived around the Sault Ste. Marie region. He fought in the 1783 Battle of St. Croix Falls and the War of 1812,... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Vignetted engraved lithograph portrait of Edward Phelps Allis, an industrialist who formed the Edward P. Allis Company in Milwaukee, initially manufacturin... |
| Date: | 02 10 1961 |
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| Description: | A bust and portrait of Abraham Lincoln. Photograph taken at an unknown location. |
| Date: | 11 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Dr. Robin Buerki, physician, teacher, organizer, administrator and distinguished alumnus poses before his portrait that was unveiled and presented to the U... |
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| Description: | Waist-up profile portrait of Gen. James Ray of Kentucky. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic portrait of Alfonso XII, King of Spain. From an engraving by [Samuel] Hollyer, Gutenburg, NJ. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of a reproduction of a painted portrait of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, with his wife Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Rus... |
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| Description: | Photograph of an oil painting of Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, depicted standing and holding a rifle. Caption reads: "Oil painting of Sitting Bull b... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Engraved lithographic portrait of Charles Aldrich, a newspaper owner and writer and Free Soil Party member of the Iowa State Assembly from 1860-1882. He se... |
| Date: | 01 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Edward Porter Alexander (1907- ). Supt. (Director) of the State Hist. Soc. of Wis., 1941-1946. Photocopy of an oil portrait by James S. Wat... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Engraved waist-up portrait of Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 1801-1825. Caption reads: "Alexander 1. Emperor of Russia. On steel by John Sartain - Phil. Fo... |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of Albert Alden, shipmaster from Portland, Maine. |
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| Description: | Painted profile portrait of Albert Alden, owner and ship master. He was the next to the youngest son of Captain John Alden of Portland, Maine. Caption read... |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of John Alden, the eldest son of Captain John Alden, at 13 years old. |
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