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Lillian Sholes

Date: 1872
Description: Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes.
Photograph

Sidell Sisters

Date: 1927
Description: The Sidell Sisters, Billie and Pierre, posed as a Latin couple. The Sidell Sisters were from Madison, Wisconsin. They were students of Leo T. Kehl and th...
Drawing

Edith Head Costume Design

Date: 1958
Description: Black dress, fitted at the waist, designed by Edith Head for "Vertigo" (Paramount 1958).
Drawing

Edith Head Costume Design

Date: 1954
Description: Green wrap-around dress, fitted at the waist, shown with grey shoes. Edith Head design for Grace Kelly in "The Country Girl" (Paramount 1954).
Magazine or Periodical

The Democratic Convention at Cincinnati

Date: 07 10 1880
Description: Large crowd of people in ter hall for the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati.
Photograph

Family Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, and two children. The man in the center is wearing a watch fob on his vest and is standing ...
Photograph

Family Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, and two children. The man in the center is wearing a watch fob on his vest and is standing ...
Photograph

Portrait of Unidentified Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a full-length dark-colored dress with polka-dots, embellished with leaf patterned trim, ruffles and puffy ...
Photograph

The Plotters

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of four women sitting, and one man standing, around a large map of northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The women are wearing ...

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