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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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Gesell Family Burlesque

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Description: The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi...
Postcard

Stephen and Clara Medhurst Willingham Chilton

Date: 12 25 1934
Description: Holiday postcard featuring a photograph of Stephen Chilton and Clara Medhurst Willingham Chilton, grandparents of Aunt Clara Bewick Colby.
Photograph

Cassville Storefronts

Date: 1910
Description: Three storefronts on a dirt road. A man, said to be Charles Grimm, is driving a horse and buggy. The building in the center is Feiker's photo studio. Near ...
Photograph

Andrew Dahl with Seminary Classmates

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Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Andrew Dahl at seminary re-union with Rev.Hagbarth Engh and Rev. Jens Andreas Wang.
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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 ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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Studio Portrait of a Dog

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Description: Studio portrait of an American Water Spaniel posing on a stump in the Van Schaick photography studio in front of a painted backdrop. There is a sign for "C...
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Studio Portrait of Young Girl in Swing

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Description: Studio portrait of a girl sitting on a swing and holding her hat in front of a painted backdrop.
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Portrait of Carrie Elk and Annie Lowe Lincoln

Date: 1904
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting, wearing beaded necklaces and long earrings, and wrapped in shawls. Carrie Elk (ENooKah...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Susie Decorra Thundercloud, Albert Henry and Dora Monegar Wallace Green

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk group, Susie Decorra Thundercloud (UkSeKaHoNoKah), left, Albert (Robert) Henry (HeKeMeGa), center, and Dora Moneg...
Photograph

Studio Group Portrait

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Description: Full-length studio group portrait of two men, two Ho-Chunk woman, and a Ho-Chunk child. The men are sitting and wearing suits and hats, with the man on the...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Jim White Bear and Family

Date: 1906
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family, including a man, woman, four girls, and a boy posing in front of a painted backdrop. The woman and older ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Jesse Thompson and John White

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men posing sitting and wearing suit jackets and ties in front of a painted backdrop. John White, on the left, is wear...
Photograph

Portrait of Four Ho-Chunk Women in Regalia

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting between two Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing regali...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of group posing in front of a painted backdrop with a prop fence. Two Ho-Chunk women are sitting and wearing several necklaces,...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Group

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of group in front of a painted porch backdrop, typical of many Van Schaick's photographs. The three Ho-Chunk women are wearing several neck...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Portrait of Large Group of Women

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Description: Copy photograph in front of a painted backdrop of a studio portrait of a large group of white women. Identified from the bottom row to the top and left to ...
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Group Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Men and Women

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four Ho-Chunk men and four Ho-Chunk women posing sitting and standing. From left to right in the back are...

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