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Portrait of Charles May Family

Date: 11 05 1933
Description: Portrait of Charles May family. Father and mother, and three children.
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Mrs. Damiani and Daughters

Date: 06 04 1931
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Damiani with her daughters, Josephine and Elaine, arrested with her husband who was charged with passing counterfeit bills.
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Group Portrait of Three Women and a Child

Date: 08 02 1927
Description: Portrait of three women and a child for Mrs. Dowling of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Nurse with Native Americans

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Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
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Mother and Child

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Description: Studio portrait of mother and child in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is seated and wearing a black dress, the toddler is standing and dressed in w...
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Two Children and a Rose

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Description: Studio portrait of two children, Liane Faust Hilgers and Harold Pick, sitting on stools in front of a painted backdrop. Harold is holding up a rose and Lia...
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Mrs. Frederick F. Kessenich and Son

Date: 06 12 1950
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Frederick F. Kessenich with her 3 year old son Peter.
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Summer Visitors

Date: 07 03 1950
Description: Portrait of Mrs. O.K. (Niederer) Hunsaker and her two children, William, 9 months, and Marilyn Kay, 2 years.
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Forest Middleton

Date: 1894
Description: Forest Middleton poses for his portrait in a kilt, holding a toy horse. He is standing on a chair which is draped with a cloth.
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Portrait of Caroline Webb Family

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of an African American family (probably Caroline Webb, Andrew Norris Webb Sr., and Andrew Norris Webb Jr.) in front of a painted backdrop. ...
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Summer Visitors

Date: 07 17 1954
Description: Portrait of Jane Hilsenhoff and her daughter, Leslie Jane. They are from Frederick, Maryland, and are visiting the home of her husband's parents, Mrs. and ...
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Summer Vistors

Date: 07 25 1954
Description: Group portrait of Louise Phelan of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and her three children. They are, from left: Beth, Jerry, and infant Kathryn. They are visiting...
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Visiting Madison Native

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Price D. (Carole) Fessenden with her sons Price, 3, and Stephen, 8 months. She is visiting he parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Branley, ...
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Visiting Madison Native

Date: 09 04 1954
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Felix J. (Phyllis) Gryskiewiez and her three children. She and her husband are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. P.H. Mickle.
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Portrait of a Mother and her Two Daughters

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Description: The woman, Mary Zehnpfennig Bachmayer, is seated in this studio portrait. Her daughters Lucy and Kunigunda Helene stand next to her.
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New Residents

Date: 09 13 1954
Description: Portrait of new Madison residents Doris Morgan and three and a half year old son, Gary, after arriving in Madison. Husband and father Thomas Morgan is now ...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Mrs. Arnold (Elizabeth) Griswold sitting in a wheelchair beside her family. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Four Girls Pose Outdoors

Date: 1930
Description: Four young girls pose outside of Witt's photography studio. They are wearing dresses. Two of the girls have jackets, and three of them have hair bows.
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Mother's Day

Date: 05 07 1956
Description: Three generation Mother's Day portrait of Violet Schneiders (grandmother), Betty Sonneland, Jr. (mother), with 4-year-old Arthur "Kim," and 19-month-old Kr...
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Visiting Relatives and Former Residents

Date: 07 24 1956
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Daniel A. Peterson with her son Daniel Thomas. They are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell T. Thronson, and her in-laws, Mr. and Mr...

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