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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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Juvenile Coronet Band

Date: 1889
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Juvenile Coronet Band of Alma, Wisconsin, with boy holding instruments. Arnold Gesell is third from right...
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Girls in a Ring

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three girls holding hands in a ring (dancing).
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Native Americans at the World's Fair

Date: 1932
Description: Group of Native Americans en route to the 1933 World's Fair. The group are members of the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial. The man holding the feather flag o...
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Native American Family

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Description: Native American family, dressed in native clothing, standing on blanket outdoors.
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J. Robert Taylor Family

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Description: Family posed in a line in a yard outside a home. Identified from back: Alma Reinhardt Taylor, Ellen Taylor Higgins, J. Robert Taylor, Donna Taylor Adams, ...
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Man, Woman, and Child

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Description: A studio portrait of a man and small girl in a white dress sitting on a studio prop of a stone wall. The man wears a suit jacket, vest, and trousers. A wom...
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Group Portrait of Children and Adults

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Description: A large group consisting of five males and four females pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop around a studio prop of a stone wall. The...
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Adults and Children around Stone Wall

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Description: A studio portrait of seven individuals in front of a painted backdrop. A man in a suit jacket, vest, and trousers sits on the studio prop of a stone wall a...
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Seated Girl and Baby Girl and Two Boys

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Description: A studio portrait of group of children next to a wooden fence in front of a painted backdrop. The girl is sitting and wearing a lace-collared dress with ri...
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Children with Swing and Tricycle

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Description: Studio portrait of three boys and one girl posing with a tricycle and a swing in front of a painted backdrop. The older boy wears a suit jacket, vest with ...
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Six Boys, Two Seated and Four Standing

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Description: A studio portrait of six boys, two seated and four standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing large bow ties, short pants, leggings and ...
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Studio Portrait of Three Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two seated boys wearing matching suit jackets and large white bow ties. A girl stands behind them with he...
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Studio Portrait of Margaret Whitedeer Littlesam, Lee Dick Littlesam, and Emma Stacy Whitedeer Lowery

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop near a prop wooden fence. The women are wearing earrings, r...
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Studio Portrait of Luke Snowball and Family

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, woman, and child. The couple is posing sitting and the child is posing standing between them. They are all wearing many ...
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Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder and Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Thomas Thunder, posing sitting and wearing modern dress. A Ho-Chunk woman, his wife, is p...
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Studio Portrait of Moheek Thundercloud with Wife and Son

Date: 1903
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, woman and child posing sitting and standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are identified as Moheek Th...
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Studio Portrait of William Massey, Grace Decorra Twocrow

Date: 1890
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk group in front of a painted backdrop. On the left is William Massey (ChawRoChooChayKah), sitting with his arm aro...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop. Two Ho-Chunk women are wearing several necklaces and earrings, and three Ho-Chunk children posing sit...

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