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Studio Portrait of Mary O. Mills

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Description: Studio portrait of a European American girl with light-colored hair posed sitting with her arms on the fringed arm of an overstuffed chair. She is wearing ...
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Studio Portrait of a Woman Posed Standing

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of European American woman posed standing with her right arm resting on the back of a chair drap...
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Studio Portrait of a Standing Woman

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American woman posed standing with her right arm and left hand resting on the back...
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Janesville Public Library

Date: 1903
Description: Interior view of the Janesville Public Library. The library opened in 1903 and was funded by Andrew Carnegie at $30,000 and Eldred at $10,000. The reverse ...
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Fort Atkinson Public Library

Date: 1918
Description: Interior view of the Fort Atkinson Public Library. The library was funded by H.E. Southwell with $10,000. War posters are prominently displayed and include...
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Studio Portrait of Frank Browneagle and Annie Snake

Date: 1903
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Browneagle (HeWaKaKayReKah), a Ho-Chunk man, and Annie Snake (KhaWinKeeSinchHayWinKah) ...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Family

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Description: Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, woman, and two girls in front of a painted backdrop. The Ho-Chunk man is posing sitting on the left and is wearing a ban...
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Edwin R. Harris Family

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Description: A group studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Edwin Harris family.
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Woman Holding Baby

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Description: Woman in bathrobe sits in a rocking chair holding an infant.
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Portrait of a Young Woman

Date: 1925
Description: A full-length studio portrait of a young woman, possibly a dancer, in costume.
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News Broadcaster Promotes Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: News broadcaster Bon Turner makes an appeal over the radio to farmers to bring their scrap metal into town to help meet the country's need for vital war ma...
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Three Dolls

Date: 1935
Description: Three dolls from the collection of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, are posed seated at a small table with a tea set. The dolls date from the m...
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Lustreware Collection

Date: 1940
Description: An open cabinet in the photographer's home displays his collection of lustreware and other pottery. The collection is now owned by the Wisconsin Historical...
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Studio Portrait of a Standing Baby

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Description: A studio portrait of a baby standing on a cloth-covered surface in front of a painted backdrop. The baby is wearing a long, light-colored dress and boots.
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Interior of a Dry-Goods Store

Date: 1908
Description: Three women and one man pose at a cashier's counter in the interior of a dry-goods store, presumably in Wisconsin. Hammocks hang from the ceiling in the ba...
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Businessman at his Desk

Date: 1918
Description: Unidentified business or professional man seated in a chair in front of a roll-top desk. He is wearing round eyeglasses, and there is a typewriter on the d...
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A Ghost Visiting Harry E. Hill

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Description: Harry E. Hill, seated at a desk, with a shrouded skull image to his left. The skull is exposed to look translucent, as is common in spirit photography.
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Funeral Wreath

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Description: Studio portrait of a funeral wreath displayed on a table, with the numbers 494.
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Refectory in St. Augustine

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Description: Interior of the refectory at the oldest house in St. Augustine. On the right is a woman wearing a necklace of large, dark beads praying on a prie dieu (Fre...
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Hebrew Brotherhood Synagogue Side Room

Date: 02 1977
Description: A side room in the synagogue, with a bench and a chair in the foreground, and a cabinet with glass windows against the wall in the background.

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