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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting of the second Fort Crawford, built 1829-1835. Two men are in a boat in the water in the foreground. The first Fort Crawford at Pra... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Lithograph poster for Augustin Daly's 1867 play Under the Gaslight, depicting Snorkey the one-armed Civil War veteran tied to the railroad tracks, w... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Lillie Langtry is in character as the adventuress Lena Despard from the play "As in a Looking-Glass." In this full-length portrait, she is seated, facing ... |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | Black and white lithograph on paper. Title over image of minstrel company. Inserts of Lon and Billy Morris, left and right. Large image of man papering sto... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James A. Herne in his Great Play" upper left, title and director upper right. Scene from play with Martin and Nathaniel Berry c... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. "James J. Corbett in His New Play A Naval Cadet" across top, Charles T. Vincent's name beneath title upper left and "Direction o... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph on paper. Title across top in caps. Below it a scene in a pub featuring three men, with the central figure propping a foot on a wooden buc... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Title runs across the top with the author's name just below it upper right. Scene from the drama shows a boy dressed in gray unifo... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The caption running across the top is "Frank Sanger's Company supporting John F. Sheridan." The image shows Sheridan, cross-dresse... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. The image depicts two men fighting near a bridge and raging river. One man has driven the other to the precipice. A caption below ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster whose top caption reads "Oscar F. Hodge presents" followed in larger type by "Neil O'Brien and His Great American Minstrels." Below... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | This color lithograph poster shows a man in blackface with a giant rooster standing behind him looking over his shoulder. In the lower left corner, the act... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph poster. Top banner "Uncle Josh Spruceby" with insert left containing picture of Uncle Josh. The image depicts a scene from the play with a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ... |
| Date: | 09 1879 |
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| Description: | Childhood portrait of Raymond Hitchcock and his two sisters. Hitchcock would become a well-known actor and producer on Broadway and a player in silent film... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of William Wallace Kerrigan, his older brother George Warren Kerrigan, and a small dog, probably taken in Indiana around 1882. George War... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Half-length portrait of actress and singer Lillian Russell with her young daughter Dorothy Lillian Solomon, who later performed under the name Dorothy Russ... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Copy print of a quarter-length daguerreotype portrait of James Jesse Strang. |
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