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Mathilde Franziska Anneke

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Description: Formal studio portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke wearing dark dress and coat.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Assembly Detail

Date: 03 15 1899
Description: Detail of the Assembly Chamber photograph focusing on the journalists seated near the front of the room. During the 19th century, coverage of Capitol news ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Senate Detail

Date: 1899
Description: Detail of several senators. The Senate was less crowded than the Assembly because of its small numbers, allowing a better glimpse of the floral carpet and ...
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Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Girl on Her Communion

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of a girl on the occasion of her First Communion. She is dressed in a white dress and flowered tiara and holds a...
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Carolyn Zander Ziegler on Her Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of Carolyn Zander Ziegler on the occasion of her graduation. She is standing and is wearing a white ...
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Viola Festge Hering on Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of Viola Festge Hering on the occasion of her graduation. She is standing and is wearing a pleated w...
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Girl on Her Communion

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a girl on the occasion of her First Communion. She is standing and wearing a white dress, flowere...
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Miss Tootsie Kiyi (Costumed Dog in Chair)

Date: 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of small dog dressed in a dress, with a hand fan, and an umbrella or parasol, sitting in a rocking chair. The photograph is captioned...
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General Cleaning Company Truck

Date: 07 03 1926
Description: One man is sitting in the cab and another man is standing in the street near the back with a rolled carpet on the bed of an International truck used by the...
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Publicity Portrait of Valeska Suratt

Date: 1906
Description: An early full-length publicity portrait of Valeska Suratt posed in the "Egyptian" style. She wears an intricate dress decorated with metallic ribbons and a...
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Man Reading in Rocking Chair

Date: 1923
Description: Mr. Lutfring sitting in a wicker rocking chair while reading a newspaper. The room is furnished with an upholstered divan, lamp with fringe shade, carpetin...
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Woman Sewing with Machine

Date: 1923
Description: A woman using a foot-pedal sewing machine while working with a piece of fraying fabric.
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Secretary of State Testifying at the Foreign Operations Subcommittee

Date: 03 14 1989
Description: Secretary of State James Baker testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Wisconsin Congressman David R....
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Schultz Before the Committee

Date: 03 06 1986
Description: Secretary of State George Schultz during the Reagan Administration (second from the left) testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. Leaning fo...
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Film Still from "Heart Strategy"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still - interior - group of one actress and three actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor.
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Film Still from "Heart Strategy"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still - interior - actress and actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor.
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Film Still from "Heart Strategy"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still - interior - actress and actor standing together; no set beyond carpet on the floor.
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Woman Sitting in a Chair

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Lena Gerath Falkenstein seated in a chair on a patterned carpet in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a dress, flow...
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Josephine (Crane) Bradley

Date: 1908
Description: Portrait of Josephine Crane of Chicago, Illinois in her wedding dress and veil. She married Harold Cornelius Bradley, a professor of physiological chemistr...

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