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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior of Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, looking down the aisle of pews towards three altars. The left altar depicts Mary, the right altar depict... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks of the Merrimac train depot. Against the building a man poses on top of a ladder. He is repainting the exterior. There is a hou... |
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| Description: | A stage curtain with advertising for local businesses, and a landscape scene in the middle depicting a sailboat near a shoreline with an island in the dist... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down center aisle towards the altar. Pews are on both sides of the aisle, and chandeliers hang from the center of the ceiling. There are sculptures of... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down aisle between pews towards the altar in the interior of the Catholic Church. Ornate chandeliers hang from the ceiling. On the left in an arched n... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Painting of Fort Hamilton propped outdoors on a woodpile. An oval inset painting at the top commemorates is titled: "Col. Hamilton Leaving For The Gold Fie... |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bradford and Alice Gillett, Sherwin Gillett's uncle and aunt. There is a framed portrait of two children on a ta... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but t... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ... |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Dr. Charles Schmidt (Sherwin Gillett's wife's cousin). He is standing next to a prop fence and his h... |
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| Description: | Sherwin Gillett's son Lorin playing an organ. He is posed in front of a painted backdrop. On the organ is written: "Beethoven Organ Co., Washington, N.J. U... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Emma Schmitt's (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) Sunday School class. Emma is in the first one on the left in the first row. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls' Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Trick photograph featuring two images of Sherwin Gillett doing laundry in a washtub. He is posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a sitting room at Trelawny House, with period chairs, a bookcase and a painting of sheep above the fireplace. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a room in Pendarvis House. To the right of the fireplace is a dresser in the corner. On the left of the fireplace is a drop-leaf table.... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906. |
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| Description: | Seated from left to right; Martha, Rufus and Emma. Standing from left to right; Martha, Harris and Myron. The 1870 US Census has the family configuration a... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Gillett with their German Shepherd, Monday. |
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