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Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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Capital Brewery

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of employees, along with young children, posed around a wagon loaded with barrels of beer in front of Hausmann's Capital Brewery at the corne...
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Thompson House

Date: 1873
Description: The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl ...
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Funeral Wreath for Boy and Baby

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Description: Funeral wreath surrounding two studio portraits of a boy and baby,with two attached panels "Our darling" above and "AT REST" below. Possibly a grave stone...
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Albert Weise Residence

Date: 1898
Description: Albert Weise's residence, with wooden sidewalk, and two kids standing on the front porch posing for the photographer.
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Cary Bass

Date: 1896
Description: A cabinet card studio portrait of Edward Cary Bass, son of Dr. Edward A. Bass.
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Portrait of Child with Long Hair

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Description: A young child stands for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The child has long hair and wears a ruffled shirt with short pants. A hat is on ...
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Children Swinging

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Description: Children playing on swing set in front of an automobile. A man is seated on a picnic table nearby.
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Seated Baby Wearing Shorts

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Description: A studio portrait of a young child wearing only shorts seated on a small chair which is on a bale of hay near two logs in front of a painted backdrop.
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Studio Portrait of Boy

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Description: Studio portrait of a boy sitting on a stump log and grass on a rug in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a hat and wearing a suit jacket, trousers,...
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Two Children Posing with Christmas Tree

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Description: Portrait of a boy and girl posed by a Christmas tree. The boy is sitting on a toy horse on the left and is wearing a military style hat and holding a toy g...
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Picking Cherries in Door County

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Description: Elevated view of a boy holding a pail of cherries. Another filled pail rests on the ground in a Door County orchard.
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Colonial Hotel

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Description: View of the Colonial Hotel as seen from across Lake Jackson. In the foreground, a woman and a boy stand next to a wooden dwelling over the water, bordered ...
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Group of Women and Girls in the Woods

Date: 1892
Description: Six young women are posing on a ladder in a woods. There is a young girl in front of them. A woman and a young girl are standing off to the side.
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Winnebago at Stand Rock

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Description: The Council (Winnebago) at Stand Rock.
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Young Boy with Box Camera

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Description: A young barefoot boy wearing striped coveralls stands on a dirt road while holding a box camera. A coaster wagon is next to him.
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Man Sitting on a Model T

Date: 1914
Description: View of a man, who is apparently blind in one eye, sitting on the running board of a Model T Ford touring automobile outdoors. A young girl is sitting in t...
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Studio Portrait of European American Girl

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified European American girl with long hair posed standing. She is wearing a full-l...

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