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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of John Messersmith. He was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1790. Messersmith came to Wisconsin in May of 1827, and r... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Vignetted profile carte-de-visite portrait of William Edward Aitchison, a University of Wisconsin student who graduated in 1884. After graduation he worked... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a man with a long moustache, possibly Brockwau. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a seated man with beard. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Oshkosh native Helen Farnsworth Mears, age 20, at the time of the unveiling of her sculpture, "Genius of Wisconsin," on display at the southwes... |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval portrait of Moses M. Strong. He was born in Vermon on May 20, 1810, and came to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, in June of 1836. Strong was... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of man in clerical collar, facing slightly to right, with deep set eyes and long goatee. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Mrs. George Adams wearing white dress and large picture necklace. George Adams was the Sheriff of Jackson County. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an elderly couple, both seated in chairs in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of young man sitting holding a hat in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards a man posing sitting, and a girl and dog standing. In the background is a frame house. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the Yeatman sisters resting their arms on a piece of furniture in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of George Blackhawk (WonkShiekChoNeeKah), sitting, and an unidentified man who is standing and w... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Indoor view of an elderly man posing sitting in a chair, and an elderly woman standing. They are probably in a bedroom. Perhaps the Peterson family. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Jake Hubert (wearing the watch chain), and another man, both smoking cigars and wearing hats and standing in front of a painted backdrop... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Daniel Steele Durrie (1819-1892), American librarian. Durrie served as the librarian for the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (now the Wi... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of deceased twin infants in coffins. They are Robert and Janet Fitzpatrick, born July 5, 1885, died April 20, 1886, children of Robert and ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of elderly woman in black dress with large bow at neck, seated in chair with hands crossed in her lap in front of a painted backdrop. She w... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Jule (in overalls) and Joe Hubert. Both men are holding cigars and are wearing tilted hats in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of William Tennant in front of a painted backdrop. He was a newspaper and magazine agent in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, who lost both his... |
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