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Mr. & Mrs. Archie Parkins with Baby
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Arthur Parkins, Jr. holding surviving newborn twin baby, John Archie Parkins, following the death of twin baby James Burton Parkins. His wife Kathryn is lying in bed under a wedding ring quilt.
January 9, 1935
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Woman & Baby
February 14, 1935
Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
Family Portrait
July 1, 1930
Four generation family group portrait. Three men and twin babies, taken for Mr. Linscott.
Nurses with Newborns
February 2, 1934
Three baby girls were born on President Franklin Roosevelt's birthday; Beverly Ann Shepherd, held by nurse Bernice Schantz, Marilyn Joan Hauden, held by nurse Ruth Peck, and Baby Smith, daughter of...
Family Portrait
July 1, 1930
Four generation family group portrait of a great grandfather, a grandfather, the young father, and his twin babies in the laps of the elders.
Mother and Her 17th Baby
July 22, 1935
Clara Halvorson, married to Henry Halvorson, resting with her 17th child, John Skews Halvorson, at Methodist Hospital shortly after the baby's birth. She was 46 years old at this time.
Lucian M. & Mary E. Hanks House, Bedroom
July 20, 1960
Bedroom of Sybil A. Hanks in Lucian M. Hanks house, 525 Wisconsin Avenue, with a quilt on the bed.
