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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan sits on a horse in a publicity still for the TV show Death Valley Days. He wears a hat and a vest with a pocket watch fob attached to... |
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| Description: | Four head shots of actress Penny Singleton as her character Maggie Franklin in the episode "The Holy Terror" of the TV show Death Valley Days. Sing... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Colonel John H. Knight, with the caption "taken after my mother's death". |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis. |
| Date: | 08 1915 |
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| Description: | Candid outdoor portrait of Lutie E. Stearns, signed on the back: "yours unto death and after, Lutie E. Stearns". |
| Date: | 12 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stoughton police chief Clifford Kriedeman. He was the police chief from 1955 until his death in 1979. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Chauncey McCormick, member of the International Harvester Board of Directors from 1936 until his death in 1954. His grandfather William McCormick was Cyru... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length sitting portrait of James Strang. |
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| Description: | Ninth plate daguerreotype of Leroy Lumbard, taken at the age of 2 after his death. The portrait is three-quarter length with the child laying back and turn... |
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| Description: | Vignetted quarter-length portrait of Charles Ferdinand Ilsley, who with his partner Samuel Marshall, established a bank in Milwaukee, incorporated in 1888.... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Jodie "Butterbeans" Edwards and his wife "Suzy," a vaudeville comedy act. After Suzy died in 1962, Edwards continued to tour until the time of his death in... |
| Date: | 05 13 1884 |
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| Description: | "Mourning portrait" of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), taken after his death on the morning of May 13, 1884. McCormick's hair and beard are neatly trimm... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Bill Duren of Chippewa Falls, founder of Cygnet Films. Cygnet Films made training films. After his premature death, the company became known as Spectrum In... |
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| Description: | A formal portrait of the Potowatomie chief Shaubena or (Shabona) made at Hennepin, Illinois shortly before his death in 1859. Shaubena was a grandnephew o... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a seated woman wearing a bonnet. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an elderly woman seated, probably Mrs. John Coleman. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a seated woman wearing a striped dress. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a man with a long moustache, possibly Brockwau. |
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