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Photograph

Family on Entryway Steps

Date: 1874
Description: Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova...
Photograph

Henry Hooker Family

Date: 1871
Description: The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c...
Painting

Bierstadt Butterfly

Date: 1900
Description: Oil on paper painting of a butterfly. Bierstadt would apply oil paints directly to the paper to form one wing of a butterfly, then fold the paper in Rorsch...
Painting

Black Butterfly Painting

Date: 1900
Description: Oil on paper painting of a black butterfly by Alfred Bierstadt. Bierstadt would apply oil paints directly to the paper to form one wing of a butterfly, the...
Photograph

Winnebago Men and Women

Date: 1910
Description: Posed studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Winnebago Indian men and one young woman. Each of the men is holding a mounted bird of some s...
Photograph

Badger and Raptors

Date: 
Description: Stereograph, of what is possibly a diorama, that contains a badger, two owls, a chipmunk, plants, cattails, dried grass, logs, simulated rocks and two shel...

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