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Boy with Photo Albums

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Description: View towards a boy standing outdoors in the grass leaning against a table with photo albums stacked on it. A fence is in the background, and a buggy is par...
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Group Portrait of People at Teachers' Institute

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Description: Group portrait of students and faculty of the Teachers' Institute.
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Three Women Reading

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Description: Interior group portrait of three European American woman posing sitting and looking at a book. The woman on the left is knitting.
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Two Images: Group Posing with Photographer's Cart; Woman with Child

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Description: Two images: on the left are two adults and two children posing in front of C.R. Monroe's Photography cart. A person is standing on the cart. On the right i...
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Woman Holding a Book

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Description: Indoor view of a woman posing sitting in a chair and holding a book.
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Musicians

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Description: Interior portrait of five men and two women posing sitting and standing in a room holding musical instruments and sheet music.
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African-American Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an African-American family. Sitting in the back is a man, holding a book, and a woman. Sitting in front is a boy, holding a gun, ...
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Woman Sitting on Sofa

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Description: Indoor portrait of a woman posing sitting on a sofa. She is wearing a dark-colored skirt and light-colored blouse, near a pillow that reads: "Reveries of a...
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Interior Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Portrait of two women posing sitting in front of a door.
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Empty Classroom

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Description: View from back of room towards the front of a classroom. Identified as a room in the school building built in 1872 in Black River Falls.
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Teacher in a Classroom

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Description: View from rear of classroom towards a woman posing sitting at a desk in front of a classroom. Identified as a room in the school building built in 1872 in ...
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Indoor Portrait of Woman and Dog

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Description: Portrait of a woman posing standing and petting a dog that is sitting on a chair near a window. A woodburning stove is in the foreground on the left. There...
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Boy Sitting at Table

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Description: A boy is sitting on a book or box on top of a chair at a small wooden table holding playing cards. Against the wall in the background are bookshelves, cove...
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Dog Sitting Up

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Description: Two women and a girl are sitting in a room with an organ in the background. A women sitting on a large book on the floor is playing with a dog sitting up o...
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Bedroom with Daybed

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Description: A large plant is on a stand near a daybed. Framed prints are hanging on the wall. On the far left is a table with a lamp on the top, and books on the botto...
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Bedroom with Dresser and Bookcase

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Description: View of a bedroom, with a bookshelf, dresser, wooden chair, bed, and several framed photographs. There is a plant in front of a window on the far left.
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Four Women in a Parlor

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Description: Interior portrait of four women posing sitting and standing in a room next to an organ and a book shelf.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a very large group of unidentified men, women, and children posing standing in front of a wooden building.
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Indoor Group Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Indoor group portrait of an unidentified family group. There is a woman posing sitting in a chair between two men posing standing on either side of her. On...
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Indoor Portrait of European American Infant

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Description: Indoor portrait of an unidentified infant posing sitting in a small wooden rocking chair in front of a bookshelf and secretary's desk. The infant is wearin...

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