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William E. Shay and Ethel Grandin in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: William E. Shay has pulled a pistol on another actor in western dress as Ethel Grandin watches, on her knees with hands clasped in a scene still from "Acro...
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Film Still from "The Clod Hopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of actor, interior kitchen of the farmhouse. Background includes a Hoosier cabinet.
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Sailor and Women with Ice Cream Cones

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Description: Three women in white dresses sit on a box nest to a young sailor sitting on a chair. They are all eating ice cream cones.
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Margaret Lawrence and her Daughters Elizabeth Munn and Louisine Munn

Date: 1925
Description: Original caption: "Arrived on S.S. Majestic Mrs. Orson D. Munn (Margaret Lawrence) and her two children L-R Elizabeth and Louise." Item from Hedda Hoppe...
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U.S.S. Wisconsin Thanksgiving Menu

Date: 11 23 1944
Description: Front cover of "The Badger," official newspaper of the U.S.S. Wisconsin, with a Thanksgiving dinner menu set against an outline in red ink of a larg...
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Emory Johnson and Ella Hall in an outdoor scene still

Date: 1918
Description: The cousins Pepe Rey Don Jose (played by Emory Johnson) and Rosarita (Ella Hall) stand in a Spanish garden looking apprehensive in a scene still from the 1...
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Olive Thomas scene still for "Betty Takes a Hand"

Date: 1918
Description: Betty Marshall (played by Olive Thomas) masquerades as an old landlady in this scene still for the silent drama "Betty Takes a Hand." She peers quizzically...
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Olive Thomas prays in a scene still

Date: 1916
Description: Wearing her nightgown, Betty (played by Olive Thomas) prays beside her bed in a scene still for the silent drama "Betty Takes a Hand."
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Robert Z. Leonard in uniform in a scene still

Date: 1915
Description: Robert Z. Leonard costumed as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the Civil War, pauses warily by a window in a scene still for the silent drama "Betty'...
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Woman in a Wheelchair

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Description: Portrait of a woman sitting in a wheelchair indoors.
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Allied Soldiers

Date: 1916
Description: Allied soldiers gathered near an entrance to an unknown establishment. A sign in French above the entrance is not legible, but there is an image of a crick...
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Alfred Lunt Weeding the Garden

Date: 1946
Description: Alfred Lunt pulling weeds in the cornfield at Ten Chimneys.
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Wedding at Black Point

Date: 06 13 1953
Description: Claire Chapin, granddaughter of Clara Seipp Bartholomay, with her husband, William Frederick Carr, on their wedding day at Black Point Estate. Geneva Lake ...
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Professor J.H. Persey

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American man, with a moustache, posing standing with his legs crossed and leaning ...
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Studio Portrait of Two European American Women

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing standing on the left next to a woman posing sitting on the right.
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East Side Window at Methodist Church

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Description: Interior view of a stained-glass window with an image of a virgin. Placed in memory of Dudley Spaulding. Identified as an east side window in the Methodist...
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Photograph of Deceased Woman and Funeral Floral Arrangements

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Description: Funeral floral arrangements with a photograph of the deceased placed in the center of one of the tall arrangement in the center.
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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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Studio Portrait of a Man with a Trumpet

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing standing and holding a trumpet.
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Studio Portrait of Alvin Baldus

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Congressman Alvin Baldus. Baldus served in the U.S. House of Representatives from the Wisconsin 3rd Congressional Distric...

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