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| Date: | 02 22 1892 |
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| Description: | Back cover, front cover, and menu page for the Old Settlers' Club of Milwaukee County annual banquet. The back page includes an illustration of a monument ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1898 |
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| Description: | Front and back covers and menu page for the 29th annual banquet of the Old Settlers Club of Milwaukee County. Front cover includes a circular portrait of c... |
| Date: | 02 22 1899 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of the Old Settlers' Club annual banquet, with a man wielding an axe and chopping down a tree. A log cabin stands in the woods be... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | The front cover features a color illustration of a man and woman relaxing near a lake or river. The woman is sitting on a chair under an umbrella painting ... |
| Date: | 05 21 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate daguerreotype of Elizabeth S. Jaques Upham (1815-1883), wife of Don A.J. Upham, Milwaukee Lawyer. The portrait is a three-fourths figure, hea... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Five teenagers ride "High Wheeler or Penny-Farthing" bicycles down the street. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background. Mature trees are on... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Frederick Layton, at about age 50. Layton was the son of a Milwaukee butcher and ran the business until his retirement... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Frederick Layton standing on deck smoking a cigar while at sea in a Kodak #2 camera portrait by T.W. Ingersoll from St. Paul, Minnesota. The photographer's... |
| Date: | 02 1893 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing a ruffled, flower printed dress. Grace was the niece of Elizabeth... |
| Date: | 02 1893 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Grace Hayman Fowle. She is wearing gloves, and a fur-trimmed cloak over a flower printed and ruffled dress. Grace was the ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the facade of the original Layton Art Gallery building at 758 N. Jefferson Street. Two men stand at the top of the stairs betwee... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Pabst (1836-1904). He is wearing a suit with white tie and a carnation boutonnierre. |
| Date: | 03 06 1898 |
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| Description: | Death notice and image of Arthur McArthur, Sr. (the last name was sometimes spelled MacArthur). The death notice was printed in the Milwaukee Sunday Sen... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length portrait of Wisconsin's 17th governor, George W. Peck, on a cabinet card. He wears glasses and a suit, vest and necktie, and is standi... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Indoor portrait of Jonathan E. Arnold, pioneer lawyer of Wisconsin. Born February 16, 1814. Settled in Milwaukee, 1836. Died there June 2, 1869. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a deck of a schooner hauling lumber. Several workmen are loading or unloading the lumber. Industrial buildings, some displaying signs, are... |
| Date: | 08 1889 |
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| Description: | Formal outdoor group portrait of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. They are posing while lined up on the front steps of the Milwaukee Armory building... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es... |
| Date: | 04 15 1892 |
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| Description: | The masthead page of the first issue of "The Pneumatic," a monthly cycling magazine. It features a cartoon captioned, "A Spring Cycling Episode." |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite quarter-length vignetted portrait of Katherine Schloesser (later Estabrook), dated via caption to "about Civil War time." Schloesser was a ... |
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