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Two Women in a Flower Bedecked Horse-Drawn Cart

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Description: Two women in fancy hats and summer dresses are sitting in a horse-drawn cart which has flower bedecked wheels and seat. One of the woman has an umbrella. I...
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Behnke's Grocery

Date: 1960
Description: William Behnke selling out after 60 years as the neighborhood grocer at North Avenue and 29th Street. There are four people behind the counter, and custome...
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A Hammock Outing

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Description: A group of people gathered on and around hammocks in a wooded area. Three women are sitting in a hammock on the left, and on the right three boys are sitti...
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Three People Sitting on a Roof

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Description: View looking up at a man sitting between two women on a roof. The women are wearing hats, skirts and collared blouses, and the woman on the right is wearin...
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Four Women in Front of a Building

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Description: Four women standing in front of a building. Above them is a railing. One of the women is holding a couple of books in her hands and under her arm.
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Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a straw hat decorated with satin and a feather. She is wearing a light-colored tight-fitting...
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Portrait of Six Women in Wearing Hats

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Description: Vignetted group portrait of six young women posing in a row. They are all wearing hats with flat crowns, curved or bent brims and lavish feather arrangemen...
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Ina Judge Hanks in her Wedding Dress

Date: 1897
Description: Full-length portrait of Ina Judge wearing her wedding dress while standing in front of a painted backdrop or in a church. Ina Judge married Stanley Hanks o...
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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Full-length portrait of two women standing on a lawn, holding hands and smiling. They are wearing cowboy hats, white shirt waist blouses with puffy sleeves...
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Four Women Wearing Feather Hats

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Description: Vignetted group portrait of four women standing closely in a row gazing at each other. The two women on the right stand in profile looking at the other two...
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Double Portrait of a Man and a Woman

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Description: On the left side of a studio portrait a man is sitting on a stool draped with patterned cloth. He is wearing a cap, a suit with knicker pants, long dark so...
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Hattie Taylor and Others on Shoreline near "Kate E. Howard"

Date: 1912
Description: Hattie Taylor and her neighbors on the icy shoreline of Lake Michigan near the row boat "Kate E. Howard."
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1940
Description: Sophie Smith (Mrs. Arthur) Pugh sitting in an arm chair next to a Christmas tree. She is wearing a jacket over a dark dress with large buttons. The tree is...
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Dressing a Deer

Date: 1930
Description: An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi...
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Women with Baskets

Date: 1930
Description: Two unidentified Ho-Chunk women posing outdoors behind a pile of baskets made from split black ash. There is a tarpaper covered dwelling behind them with a...
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Potawatomi Couple

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man and woman, identified only as Potawatomie [sic] Indians, posing in front of a log structure. The woman is wearing large earrings and ...
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1930
Description: A group of Native Americans, working in a long row, harvesting cranberries. They appear to be women and children. Dwellings are in the background on the le...
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Sugar Camp

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man, left, posing in front of the sapling frame of a shelter at a maple sugar camp. Two Native American women are standing under the fram...
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Medicine Wigwam

Date: 1930
Description: A Ho-Chunk woman with two children, a toddler who is standing, and an infant on a cradleboard, beside a long lodge (ciiserec). The lodge is covered with ca...
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Harvesting Potatoes

Date: 1925
Description: A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There...

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