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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior view of St. Francis Xavier Church. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several Cross Plains buildings across a millpond. There is a bell mounted on a metal tower near the shoreline. Caption reads: "Looking North From M... |
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| Description: | Casual portrait of photographer Matthew Witt seated at the foot of a ridge. It's likely that the image is a self-portrait produced by Witt himself. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Otto Radke, Andrew Echstein, and Jake Lange posed in front of a painted backdrop. They have their guns leaning in front of t... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard. |
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| Description: | A woman dancer in costume strikes a pose in profile in a yard in front of a porch. Her costume consists of harem trousers, a sash around her waist, a camis... |
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| Description: | A woman in a costume gazes into the camera with one foot resting on a box, one hand on her hip, the other hand on her knee. Her costume consists of harem t... |
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| Description: | Matthew Witt stands next to one of his cameras in the interior of his photographic studio. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted background of a wedding party. Three men and three women pose with a young girl and boy. The three women and one of th... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a couple, probably newlyweds. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Studio group portrait of wedding party all standing while posing in front of a painted background. Three women and a young girl are wearing long white dres... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Unidentified business or professional man seated in a chair in front of a roll-top desk. He is wearing round eyeglasses, and there is a typewriter on the d... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a boy and girl, probably brother and sister. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Young man standing in a turn-of-the-century parlor interior playing a violin. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Man and boy with a string of fish posed in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a seated, unkempt man with a pipe in his mouth. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of a composite studio portrait of funeral floral arrangements and a man in front of a painted backdrop. A head and shoulders portrait... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. Two tents, a tall wagon, an automobile and a truck are set up in a field or park with houses and trees in ... |
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