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Col. John Johnston
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Sixth plate daguerreotype of a waist-up seated portrait of Col. John Johnston. Johnston is pictured here as an elderly man; however, he is remembered in Wisconsin as the founder of a trading post on Chequamegon Bay in 1792. Hand-coloring on the cheeks.
1855
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W0126S9
WHi 95894
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