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Unidentified Woman

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Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of a woman. She is wearing earrings, a dress with fringe at the shoulders, and a tiara. She has a pompadour hairstyle w...
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Studio Portrait of Indian Women and Baby

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Indian (probably Winnebago) women. The woman on the right is holding a baby on her lap. The women are...
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Studio Portrait of Three Women Guests at Eastern Star "Gypsy Party"

Date: 01 18 1927
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three women wearing gypsy costumes. The woman in the center is gazing at the other women's pa...
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Studio Portrait of Geda Severson at Eastern Star "Gypsy Party"

Date: 01 18 1927
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Geda (Gyda) Severson standing next to a chair in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, dark skirt, a light blo...
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Studio Portrait of Jennie White at Eastern Star "Gypsy Party"

Date: 01 18 1927
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Jennie White sitting on a chair in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, dark, patterned skirt, a light blouse...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Three Women Guests at Eastern Star "Gypsy Party"

Date: 01 18 1927
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three women wearing gypsy costumes. One women is sitting in the center, and two women are sit...
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Group Portrait at Teachers' Institute

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Description: Group portrait in front of the Teachers' Institute. Some of the women in the front are wearing aprons.
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Loggers at a Logging Camp

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Description: View across snow towards a group of loggers, including two women, one holding a child in her arms, at a logging camp in winter.
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Group Posing in the Snow with Horses and Cattle

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of people standing in the snow with horses and cattle. A long log building is behind them.
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Man and Two Women

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Description: Group portrait of a man and two women, each one posing standing next to a chair in the front yard of a home. A windmill is on the right with a sign that re...
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Copy Photograph of Stagecoach Crossing the Intersection of First and Main

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Description: Copy photograph of a crowded stagecoach is being pulled by four horses through the intersection of First and Main Streets.
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Group of People Posing at Farm

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Description: A farm scene with a group of people posing in front of farm buildings, tall, cone-shaped haystacks, and a windmill. In the center is a man and woman sittin...
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Farming Scene

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Description: A farm scene with two men and a boy standing in a pen with cows and calves, and a woman is standing behind a fence in the center. A farm building or farmho...
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Double Exposure: Farming Scene/House

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Description: A farming scene with two men standing on a tractor that is belt-driving a threshing machine in the background, and a woman and two children sitting on a ho...
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Harvesting on a Farm

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Description: View across field towards a farm. The farmhouse is on the left, a barn and other buildings are to the right of the farmhouse. In the center two women and t...
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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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Outdoor Group Portrait of the Van Schaick Family

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Description: Group portrait of the Van Schaick family standing in front of a wood sided building. Identified from left to right: Roy Van Schaick; unknown woman; Roy's w...
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Merchant's Inn

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Description: Exterior view of Merchant's Inn located at the southwest corner of S. First Street and Fillmore. Two women sitting on the second floor balcony. A group of ...
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Dr. Penton's Office, Telephone Company, and Van Schaick Studio

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Description: View from street towards the facades of Dr. Penton's Office, the telephone company and Van Schaick's photography studio. Two men are standing on the sidewa...
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Group Portrait of Students and Faculty at the Teachers' Institute

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of students and faculty at the Teachers' Institute.

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