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Studio Portrait of the Lewis Children

Date: 1905
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk boy posing sitting on the left wearing a fringed leather dress. In the center is a...
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Young Sigrid Schultz

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Description: Young Sigrid Schultz with her mother in Berlin, at what appears to be an open-air restaurant. They are both fashionably dressed in fine hats and dresses.
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Vel Phillips

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Description: Vel Phillips seated at a table. She is wearing a flowered dress and has her hands clasped together.
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Sherman S. Pratt and Wife Serepta Warren Pratt

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Description: Full-length quarter plate daguerreotype of Sherman and Serepta Pratt. The Pratts moved from Bath, NY to Wisconsin Rapids, WI. They are seated facing forwar...
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Downer College Graduation

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor group portrait of women graduating from Downer College standing in front of a vine covered wall. The woman are wearing long white dresses with high...
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Chief Shingabawossin

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Description: Portrait of Ojibwa chief Shingabawossin, who lived around the Sault Ste. Marie region. He fought in the 1783 Battle of St. Croix Falls and the War of 1812,...
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Tshusick, an Ojibwa Woman

Date: 1842
Description: Portrait of a woman, who is sitting with her left arm resting on a desk or table. She is wearing a jacket, hat, skirt, and pants. According to History o...

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