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Photograph of Deceased Woman and Funeral Floral Arrangements

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Description: Funeral floral arrangements with a photograph of the deceased placed in the center of one of the tall arrangement in the center.
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Three Women in a Parlor

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Description: Indoor portrait of a women posing sitting by an organ looking at a newspaper.
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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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Unidentified Classroom

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Description: Interior view of a classroom. Identified as a classroom in the school building built in 1872.
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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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Man and Infant

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Description: Portrait of a man posing sitting and holding an infant next to a woodstove. Next to the stove is a large portrait of a man on an easel.
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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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Child's Casket

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Description: Indoor view of a small, light-colored casket resting on a table covered with a drape. The coffin is surrounded by flowers and flower arrangements on tables...
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Barber Shop Scene

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Description: Interior view of a barber shop. Two men are standing while shaving and cutting the hair of two men posing sitting in barber's chairs. The man standing on t...
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People in the Van Schaick Studio

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Description: Interior view of a two men posing sitting in front of windows in the photographic studio of Charles Van Schaick.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men, women and children standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. Some of the men are posed holding logging tools, and two o...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools while sitting and standing in a logging camp. Two men stand displaying two teams of two horses, and one man is dis...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
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Logging Camp, Black River Falls, Wisconsin

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a logging camp, displaying six teams of two oxen. One man is posed seated in a buggy pulled by a single horse, and a...
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Woman at Traveling Photographer's Wagon

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Description: See Image ID: 6394
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Photograph Gallery of Charles Van Schaick

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Description: Man petting dog, who is sitting on a chair, inside the photographic studio. There is a large studio camera on the left, several pieces of studio furniture,...
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Portrait of Winnebago Indians

Date: 1890
Description: A studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Winnebago Indians: John Hazen Hill, Alex Lonetree, daughter of Alex Lonetree, Mrs. Alex Lonetree, and W...
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Woman at Traveling Photographer's Wagon

Date: 1890
Description: A woman, possibly the daughter of C.R. Monroe, holding up an image of Black River Falls Main Street at the back of a traveling photographer's wagon.
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Van Schaick Building

Date: 1890
Description: View across street towards the building that housed the gallery of Van Schaick and the dental offices of Edward F. Long. Over the years, the building also ...
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Memorial Cross

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Description: Memorial cross of flowers with a photographic portrait of a man with muttonchops in the middle.

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