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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Susie Redhorn "HiNukIGa" (Woman), daughter of Frank Redhorn and Lucy Prettyman, shown in later years posing by two baskets. The photograph was taken at the...
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Mr. and Mrs. Paul Janke

Date: 11 14 1957
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Janke taking care of last minute details in their prescription department before closing their drugstore's doors at 1658 W. Hopkins permanentl...
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Making Buckwheat Pancakes

Date: 09 13 1949
Description: Elderly woman making pancakes on griddle at wood burning stove.
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Woman Using Spinning Wheel

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Description: Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool.
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Woman with Dollhouse

Date: 11 14 1955
Description: Woman making a small adjustment to an interior room in a dollhouse.
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
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Senior Citizens Card Game

Date: 09 10 1968
Description: Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center.
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Crocheting Doilies

Date: 04 17 1957
Description: A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother."
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Pushing the Lawn Mower

Date: 1955
Description: A man who does odd jobs around his neighborhood mows a banked lawn.
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Caning Chairs

Date: 10 17 1968
Description: An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged.
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Baiting the Hook

Date: 07 27 1941
Description: An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line.
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Telegraph Operator

Date: 09 27 1956
Description: Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
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I Like Ike

Date: 11 10 1956
Description: Bet winner and Eisenhower supporter Edwin L. Warner enjoys his payoff from bet loser and Adlai Stevenson backer John Shaat, as Shaat tows Warner along the ...
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Slicing the Meat

Date: 02 05 1955
Description: Next to a hanging scale, a large slab of meat on a butcher block is sliced into managable portions by apron-clad Mrs. Etta Parson Hocking.
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Veteran Butcher

Date: 09 08 1956
Description: Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
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Relaxing in the Barber Chair

Date: 06 1971
Description: Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop.
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U.S. Navy Veteran

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Description: Elderly Milwaukee veteran of the U.S. Navy salutes.
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Willie Mae Small

Date: 1977
Description: Willie Mae Small, 107 years old, sits in a chair off to the side during an outdoor service (church?).
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Family Reunion

Date: 08 10 1980
Description: Freida Heberer Oppermann, 81, the oldest member of the Heberer family at the reunion, had a place in the foreground for a family portrait.

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