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Cyrus Hall McCormick

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Description: Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reap...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1890
Description: Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936) by the American Biographical Publication Co., Chicago, Illinois. Mr. McCormick was the son of in...
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Robert McCormick

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Description: Engraved portrait of Robert McCormick (1780-1846), father of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884).
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Francis Huebschmann

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Description: Portrait of Dr. Francis Huebschmann.
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Robert Spencer

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Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of Robert Spencer.
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Philip D. Armour

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Description: Quarter-length engraved portrait of Philip Armour.
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Norman Wait Harris

Date: 1895
Description: Engraved quarter-length portrait of N.W. Harris.
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Portrait of Harrison Ludington

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Description: Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Governor Harrison Ludington, Wisconsin's 13th Governor. He has a short beard, and is wearing a suit and necktie. He is...
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Egbert W. Gillett

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph portrait of Egbert W. Gillett, who wrote Gillett's magic cook book in 1892 and founded the Northwestern Yeast Company in Chicago in 1893....
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Jonathan Abel

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Description: Lithographic portrait of a man. Includes the dedication: "Resp'ty Yours Jonathan Abel."
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Cyrus Hall Adams

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Description: Lithographic portrait of Cyrus Hall Adams, a Chicago commodities broker who merged his father's company with Cyrus McCormick & Co., to form McCormick, Adam...
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John Q. Adams

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Description: Lithographic portrait of John Q. Adams, a teacher and Republican politician. He was Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the Columbia 2nd district (...
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Solomon Adler

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Description: Engraving of a portrait of Solomon Adler, a clothing merchant and brother to David Adler. He assisted in conducting the first Jewish service in Wisconsin, ...
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John Peter Altgeld

Date: 1893
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...

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