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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Portrait of Mrs. R.D. Squires

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Description: Portrait of a very elderly woman sitting in a wicker wheel chair, in front of two quarter panel doors. She is wearing a dark dress with small buttons to th...
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Group Portrait of Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1906
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family, Jim White Bear, his wife Kate, and their children (four girls and a boy). Kate White Bear and the older girls are wea...
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Men Resting on Porch

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Description: A group of men sit on the porch and steps of a brick building. In addition, two women sit on the windowsill.
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Telephone Operators Posing on Steps

Date: 1911
Description: Four telephone operators pose on the steps of the Black River Falls Exchange Office Building. The second woman from the bottom is probably Mrs. W.E. (Hagen...
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Family Posing in Carriage

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Description: Two children and their father sit in a carriage pulled by a single horse while their mother stands to the side. The carriage is stopped in a yard of a larg...
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Traveling Medicine Show

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Description: A group of people posed among tents, probably a traveling medicine show. On the table in the foreground, a contortionist is visible. A banner above a stage...
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Doctor and Woman in Tent

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Description: A woman sits and a man stands at the opening of a tent, probably Dr. Matthews of a traveling medicine show. Inside the open tent there is a table with a di...
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Family Posing in Yard

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Description: A man, two women and a baby in a baby carriage posing in the yard of a two-story house.
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Family in Yard

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Description: A young boy is mowing the lawn, while two women and a man are posing in the yard and on the porch of a two-story house.
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Family on Porch

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Description: A stereograph from front walk of a family posing on a porch. A young child is riding a tricycle on a board sidewalk in front of the porch.
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Man and Woman Seated by Desk

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Description: A man and a woman sit by a desk in a corner of a room that holds various books and papers.
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Tea Party with Guitarist

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Description: Seven women and two men gather for tea, while one of the men plays a guitar. They are posed in the corner of a room.
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Two Women in Painted Rowboat

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Description: Two women in hats sit behind a board painted with a decorative rowboat for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Women with Household Articles

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Description: A studio portrait of six women posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are holding household items including an iron, knife, potato, dustpan, broom, pi...
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Portrait of an Elderly Couple

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Description: A studio portrait of an elderly couple, probably Lawrence Washington Burge and Emmeline Elizabeth Barney Burge. The man is wearing a suit jacket, and the w...
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Portrait of Three Women

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Description: Three women sit for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. Each woman has the name "Blaine" embroidered on their collar.
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The Oderbolz Family

Date: 1880
Description: Three-quarter length studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young people in a European American family posed standing. The woman wear dres...
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Portrait of a Couple and Five Children

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Description: A studio portrait of a seated man, and a woman holding a child, surrounded by two girls and two boys posing in front of a painted backdrop. The man and boy...
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Portrait of a Couple and Four Children

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Description: A studio portrait of a seated man and woman surrounded by two boys and two girls in front of a painted backdrop. On the left can be seen the edge of the ba...

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