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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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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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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1905
Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Sam Carley Blowsnake (HoChunkHaTeKah), wearing a hat and sporting long hair, is sitting next to ...
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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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Man Posing on Main Street

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of a man on Main Street, created by Van Schaick or his colleague, Thomas T. McAdam.
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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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Log Transportation

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Description: Two men stand on top of a load of logs that is pulled by a team of two horses.
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Man Posing with Stallion

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Description: A man displays a draft stallion in a field with many buggies outside the Jackson County Fairgrounds.
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Man in Wagon

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Description: A man, possibly Abe Bailey, sits in a wagon pulled by a horse wearing a fly-net.
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Man with Horse and Buggy in front of House

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Description: View across dirt road of a man with a horse and buggy stopped in front of a house.
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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 in the Snow

Date: 1920
Description: Winter scene with a man, two boys, and two girls standing in the snow outside a two-story brick building, possibly in the town of Vaudreuil.
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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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Woman Standing Behind Fence

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Description: View across road towards a woman standing under trees just behind a wooden fence that is surrounding a frame house.
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Group Gathered at Fence

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Description: View from dirt road towards two men and a woman are standing at the corner of a fence that surrounds a two-story frame house.

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