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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Gown made by Charles Frederick Worth of Paris for Frances Fairchild, wife of Wisconsin Governor Lucius Fairchild. |
| Date: | 05 04 2010 |
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| Description: | A girl doll dating back to 1890-1900. She is painted brown, and wearing a striped coat over a flowered dress. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | View of a long-sleeve, brown and white checked dress worn by Cora Cundiff. |
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| Description: | Front view of a boy's dress made of blue and off-white windowpane check cotton with off-white batiste trim. The dress was made 1900-1910. |
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| Description: | A bisque doll of a woman with her face and hands painted black. She is wearing a red plaid dress with two aprons. The doll was made in Germany in 1890-1910... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Front cover of Reuben Gold Thwaites' Historic Waterways, with an image of a man and a woman paddling a rowboat on a river. |
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| Description: | She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here on the outer edge of worry It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice A ha... |
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| Description: | Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk, unkind to wake the dreamer |
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| Description: | Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated, their better natures, surfacing through waves of church-worn care, prevailed over... |
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| Description: | That morning is adrift in passing; it cannot last the day. Those years are anchored to each other; there is no other way. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of a lightweight wool dress cut from a shawl, in cream, rust and indigo paisley with a black center. The paisley has a bird-of-paradise ... |
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| Description: | You came to know that book by its covered distance, well remembered by the measure of the trudging barefoot mile |
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| Description: | On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead to tell us who we are and what the odds. Don't count; a promise is no more than just a s... |
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| Description: | The parson came. He said it well: Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on, not the sky. A little harvest of the sorrows between the sentenc... |
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| Description: | We always know what day it is Because it never fails. Sometime between the awful and the coffee that stepson drives along the road and all the dog... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A decorated album page featuring a full-length studio portrait of Stuart Fargo, wearing a long gown and sitting on a settee with a bolster pillow at the le... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two photographs featuring Louise Mears (Mrs. Frank B.) Fargo holding her son Stuart are mounted on an album page decorated with hand-painted pussy willow t... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Hand-painted poppies adorn an album page which features a photograph of Stuart, left, and Dorothy Fargo. In the photograph, Stuart is naked and has placed ... |
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