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Engraving of William Porter “Pitt” Murray, ca. 1870.
William R. Marshall, Colonel, Seventh Minnesota Infantry, c.1864.
William R. Merriam, c.1890.
William R. Merriam, c.1885. Photograph by George Prince.
William R. Merriam residence, 25 University, St. Paul, c.1888.
William R. Morris, ca.1919. Morris became captain of Company D of the Sixteenth Battalion, Minnesota Home Guard and was also a founding member of the Minneapolis NAACP. Image is from the Minneapolis National Advocate, March 15, 1919.
Official Governor's Portrait of William R. Merriam, 1890–1895. Painted by artist Adolf Muller-Ury.
William Spangenberg seated with friends in a hammock, with his parents Anna and Frederick in the doorway behind him, c.1900.
William T. Francis, ca. 1904.
William W. Eastman, c.1890, one of the primary people responsible for the tunnel project.