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Men in Front of Saloon

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Description: Bartender and six patrons posing in front of a saloon. The saloon sign reads: "Celebrated Watertown Lager Beer."
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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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Organized Winnebago Indian Show Company

Date: 1885
Description: In this photograph, copied by Van Schaick from another photographer, Wild West show promoter Tom Roddy is standing on the far right, along with his cast of...
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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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Group Posing Near Fence

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Description: A man, three women, and a girl are posing under trees in front of a fence that is surrounding a frame house.
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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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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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Group Studio Portrait of Four Men

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Description: A studio portrait of four standing men in suits holding top hats and canes in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing long suit jackets over thei...
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Studio Portrait of Four Musicians

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Description: A studio portrait of four well-dressed men carrying instrument cases in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing long coats, top hats, and gloves.
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Musicians Playing Instruments

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Description: A studio portrait of four men playing musical instruments in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing suit jackets, vests, neckties, and trousers. The...
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Four Guitar Players

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Description: A studio portrait of four men posing with guitars in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing suit jackets, vests, neckties, and trousers.
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Studio Portrait of Guitar Players

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Description: Four musicians stand with their guitars and pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing hats, with suit jackets, vests,...
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Three Musicians in Blackface and Costume

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Description: Three musicians, two males with banjos and possibly a woman with a guitar, pose in blackface and costumes for a studio portrait in front of a painted backd...
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Eight Group Portraits of Three Young Men

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Description: Eight group exposures of three men in a photography studio posing in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, starting in the upper left corner: re...
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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 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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