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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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Family at Dining Table

Date: 1890
Description: Family gathered at the dining table.
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Indian Infant on Cradleboard

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Description: Illustration of an Indian baby on a cradleboard propped up between two Indian women.
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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Milking the Cows

Date: 1929
Description: A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm.
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Feeding a Calf

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with Bertha Gesell feeding a calf from a pan.
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Fishermen at Lunch

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Description: A group of Maine commercial fishermen having lunch on a dock.
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Decorated Dining Room

Date: 1890
Description: Dining room decorated with streamers for a wedding reception. The table is set formally with candles and there is a wedding cake as a centerpiece.
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Indian Protest

Date: 08 02 1971
Description: Site of a demonstration by Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa against the Northern States Power Company dam on the Chippewa Flowage, Sawyer County. There is an A...
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Pouring Milk at the Wonder Spot

Date: 06 30 1957
Description: Nancy Waterman unsuccessfully pours milk for Harriet Anderson (whose name has since changed to Penny Hilley) at the Wonder Spot.
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Family Portrait

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Description: A family portrait on the front porch of their house. There are three females and three males.
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Eugene A. Gilmore House

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Description: The Eugene A. Gilmore residence at 120 Ely Place. Known as the "Airplane House," it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1908.
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Group of People at Picnic

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Description: Men and women drinking tea around a picnic table at a park. The women are wearing fancy hats.
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Home Economics Lab Class

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Description: Laboratory work in a University of Wisconsin home economics class.
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Weaving Class

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Description: Girls' weaving class at the University of Wisconsin.
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General Store Interior

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Description: Interior of a general store displaying various merchandise in glass cases, shelves and counters.
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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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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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Woman on Porch of House

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Description: View from road of woman standing next to a chair on the porch of a wooden frame house behind a fence and a sidewalk.
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Family in Dining Room

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Description: A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb...

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