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Clara Bewick Colby and Group

Date: 06 1913
Description: Clara Bewick Colby posing with a large group of women in Vienna.
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Group Outside of House

Date: 1876
Description: Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th...
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Allen E. Adsit with Father Stephen Adsit

Date: 1873
Description: Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel...
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Family in Yard around Table

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T...
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Man Tipping his Hat on Porch

Date: 1878
Description: Greek revival frame house with Doric columns. A man is standing on the porch tipping his hat. A woman is sitting on the porch, and a woman is standing on a...
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People in Carriage near Fence

Date: 1869
Description: People in carriage in front of picket fence, wagons and people behind; large frame house with parapet roof, Corinthian porch columns, brackets at roof; car...
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Men on Chimneys

Date: 1874
Description: A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual...
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Family in front of Frame House

Date: 1870
Description: Family sitting in chairs in front of fence, with two men standing behind the fence near a well wearing top hats. A frame house with a porch is behind them.
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Harmon J. Hill and Family

Date: 1879
Description: Harmon J. Hill and family, all dressed formally, posing in front of their home. This sandstone house was built in 1857 and later became part of the Univers...
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Portrait of David Goodvillage with Wife and Granddaughter

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Description: Studio portrait of a Sioux man, Ho-Chunk woman, and Ho-Chunk girl, all posing standing in front of a painted backdrop and wearing full regalia. Identified ...
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Studio Portrait of Veteran Ruby Whiterabbit

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of World War II veteran Ruby Whiterabbit. She is sitting and wearing an eagle feather war bonnet (m...
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Pearl White in "Pearl of the Army"

Date: 1916
Description: Pearl White stands in front of a painted studio background, sword in hand, wearing the female version of a U.S. Army cavalry uniform.
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Group of People Posing at Farm

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Description: A farm scene with a group of people posing in front of farm buildings, tall, cone-shaped haystacks, and a windmill. In the center is a man and woman sittin...
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Allcott Family

Date: 1852
Description: Whole plate daguerreotype of the Allcott family. The parents, Sidney S. and his wife Julia, are seated. Sidney faces partially left, Julia forward. Their t...
Manuscript

Page 4 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Miss Leonard and the ungraded students." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "Miss...
Manuscript

Page 5 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Muss Cuslee[?] and the primary tots." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "Showing...
Manuscript

Page 7 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "The birthday cake and its creators, Feb. 8, 1921." Caption for photograph at bottom re...
Manuscript

Page 8 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Picnic lunch on a Monday excursion to the woods." Caption for photograph at bottom rea...
Manuscript

Page 10 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with five photographs and a caption at bottom that reads: "Miss Rulifson's[?] girls on a Monday hike."
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Page 15 from "A Few Glimpses of Stanley McCormick School"

Date: 02 08 1921
Description: Page from booklet with a photograph at top with caption that reads: "Mother, Bob and Sister, October, 1920." Caption for photograph at bottom reads: "Rober...

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