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Photograph Gallery of Charles Van Schaick

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Description: Man petting dog, who is sitting on a chair, inside the photographic studio. There is a large studio camera on the left, several pieces of studio furniture,...
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Horse Pulling Wagon Through Field

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Description: A man with a shotgun and whip sits in a buggy pulled by a single horse in a field, possibly looking for prairie chickens.
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Group Near Tent

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Description: A group of men, women, and children gather outside a tent. One of the women attends to a camera.
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Man Outdoors with Phonograph

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Description: A man sits in a wooded area and plays music on a phonograph.
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Copy Photograph of John Buffalo Head

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk man posing sitting outside a tent, smoking a calumet pipe, holding a metal tomahawk, and wearing a Sioux headdress, several n...
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Crowd in Street of Black River Falls

Date: 1908
Description: Tourists look on as a group of Ho-Chunk dressed in traditional regalia are walking down the street during the Homecoming Celebration.
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Ho-Chunk Man and Women in Wagon

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Description: Ho-Chunk man and two Ho-Chunk women in a wagon pulled by a two-horse team. They are probably about to cross the bridge toward the Mission at the intersecti...
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Three Children in Town

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman, and three Ho-Chunk children wearing winter clothes, standing on a board sidewalk in town, probably Black River Falls. Two of the children a...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: A Ho-Chunk group dressed in regalia standing behind an elderly woman, sitting, and child who is standing. The man with the rifle has an appliqué blanket wr...
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Lila Tester in front of the Merchant's Hotel

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman wearing a light-colored dress with a sweater or jacket, standing and holding the reins and bridle of a horse in a street. A man...
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Tom Roddy and Boy

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Description: Indoor portrait of a European American man posing sitting on a sofa on the left, next to a European American child posing standing in the center. The room ...
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Boy with a Rifle on North Fourth Street

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Description: View of a European American boy posing standing and shooting a rifle on the snow-covered ground in the yard in front of a house. The house on the left is i...
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Scene at Merchant's Hotel

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Description: Indoor portrait of a European American boy posing lying on his stomach on top of a cloth covered table with his head in his hands, possibly taken inside th...
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General Store; Interior

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Description: Interior portrait of a young European American man posing standing in a general store. He is wearing a dark-colored suit coat and hat, and is standing at t...
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City Bakery

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Description: Indoor portrait of a European American man posing standing behind glass display cases in a shop with electric light bulbs in fixtures handing from the ceil...
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City Bakery; Interior

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Description: Interior view of a bakery, with a man posing standing behind a counter wrapping two loaves of bread. The bread is displayed in glass cases. Identified as t...
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Telephone Equipment

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Description: Interior view of telephone equipment stored under wooden steps, including receivers and a switchboard. Probably inside the Van Schaick building.
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Switchboard Operators at the Telephone Exchange Office

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Description: Indoor group portrait of an office space. with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard, and another woman posing standing. The woman standing i...
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Switchboard Operators

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Description: Indoor portrait of an office space with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard. Above the switchboard is a clock. There is a window on the lef...
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Bedroom with Dresser and Bookcase

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Description: View of a bedroom, with a bookshelf, dresser, wooden chair, bed, and several framed photographs. There is a plant in front of a window on the far left.

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