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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Franz Brandecke, Milwaukee-based geologist. Worked on Wisconsin geological survey with Lapham. Handwritten text on front read... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of John W. Taylor, British genealogist. Handwritten inscription on bottom reads, "John W. Taylor, Leeds - England, 1869.... |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Gov. Gaylord Nelson delivering a speech at a podium asking the state's lawmakers to help create a Wisconsin Economic Resources Commission to ... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of B.K. Emerson (1837-1928), professor of Minerology and Geology at Amherst College. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, ... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of James Hall (1811-1898), American geologist and paleontologist. Thought to be the top American invertebrate paleontol... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Édouard Desor (1811-1882), Swiss geologist and professor at Neuchâtel academy. He chiefly studied the structure of glaciers an... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of John Torrey (1796-1863), American botanist. Worked as New York state botanist from 1836. Handwritten i... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait photograph of Hubert Anson Newton (1830-1896), American astronomer and mathematician. He was best known for his research on meteor... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Henry B. Nason (1831-1895), head of the Chemistry department at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the first Technological s... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Richard Owen (1804-1892), English comparative anatomist, and paleontologist. A controversial figure, Owen is credited for coini... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Moses Strong, a Wisconsin archaeologist who served as Lapham's assistant. His most important article was titled, "Prehistoric M... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Asa Gray (1810-1888), American botanist. His most popular botanical publication, "Gray's Manual," remains a standar... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait, with accompanying obituary entry, of Major John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), American soldier, explorer, and geologist. Best known ... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Reproduction of a vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of William W. Mather (1804-1859), geologist and U.S. Army officer. Ohio's first state geologist. Capti... |
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| Description: | Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd... |
| Date: | 03 13 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire stands at a podium to address an overflow crowd of about 600 federal employees in the second congressional district at the wage in... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Philo R. Hoy (1816-1892), Wisconsin ornithologist and entomologist. Settled in Racine with his family in 1846. Served as pr... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institution... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of George Engelmann (1809-1884), German-American botanist. He is best known for describing the flora of the American West. Handwr... |
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