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Woman & Baby

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
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New Year's Baby

Date: 12 28 1934
Description: "Miss 1935," one-year-old Lois Ann Endres, daughter of Emil and Berniece Endres, 534 W. Mifflin Street, standing in an overstuffed chair wearing top hat an...
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Phil La Follette at Progressive Convention

Date: 05 19 1934
Description: Former Governor Philip F. La Follette, the younger son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., calling the roll on the proposal to form a new political party at the...
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Doris LeBundy and her Son Norman Lee Johnson

Date: 04 03 1934
Description: Doris LeBundy and her son Norman Lee Johnson at Police Station after being picked up for hitching a ride on a railroad car.
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Mrs. Wheeler and Daughter Marion

Date: 09 15 1932
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler and daughter, Marion Montana Wheeler, of Butte Montana, on the porch of the La Follette farmhouse. In 1924 Robert M. La ...
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Mrs. Damiani and Daughters

Date: 06 04 1931
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Damiani with her daughters, Josephine and Elaine, arrested with her husband who was charged with passing counterfeit bills.
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James McGilligan at Police Station

Date: 05 21 1931
Description: James McGilligan, accused of impersonating a physician, sitting at the police station.
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Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph illustration of a ...
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Relaxing in the Barber Chair

Date: 06 1971
Description: Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop.
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Women Peeling Apples

Date: 1944
Description: Three seated women with bowls on their laps peel apples outdoors while two men stand in the background.
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Anita Loos

Date: 1918
Description: The writer Anita Loos and the director John Emerson looking over a script on a film set. Emerson has a pince-nez on a cord and sits in a director's chair. ...
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L.C. Bates

Date: 1957
Description: L.C. Bates seated at a desk handling paperwork.
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W.C. Fields in "Poppy"

Date: 1923
Description: W.C. Fields in a publicity still from the Broadway show "Poppy". He is seated in an ornate chair and is wearing a top hat, checkered pants and spats.
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Capt. R.N. Conners

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Description: Studio portrait of Capt. R.N. Conners [or "Connors"], seated and wearing a uniform.
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Bish Family

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Description: An older female member of the Bish family sits in a wicker chair holding a magazine or book open on her lap. Standing on the left in front of a doorway dra...
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Nick Nelson Furniture Store

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Description: View from street of the Nick Nelson Furniture Store, with a man posed sitting on the steps. A rocking chair sits in the middle of the stoop in the open doo...
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Studio Portrait of Woman and Chair

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posed standing next to a stuffed chair. She is wearing a dress and a hat.
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Studio Portrait of Native American Man

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Native American man posed standing next to a stuffed chair.
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Man Sitting in a Wooden Chair on Porch

Date: 04 16 1914
Description: A man, Patrick Gleason, is sitting in a wooden chair on the porch of what appears to be a wood framed house. The man is wearing trousers, a dark shirt, a j...

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