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William Best Hesseltine
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Informal portrait of William Hesseltine, University of Wisconsin History Professor (1932-1963) and President of the Wisconsin State Historical Society (1961-1963) seated in front of a bookshelf and smoking a pipe. He died at age 61 in Dec. 1963.
1960
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WHi 94986
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