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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Carrie Lane

Date: 1883
Description: Quarter-length vignetted studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt when she was still single and a teacher in Mason City, Iowa.
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Mrs. Ketch Ka Mi

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Ketch ka mi, daughter of Potowatomi Indian Chief John Young.
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Vinnie Ream Hoxie

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie, Wisconsin sculptor. The only sculptor for whom Lincoln posed, Ream received the controversial commission ...
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Harold F. McCormick Family Portrait

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Description: Family portrait of Harold Fowler McCormick with his wife and two small children.
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Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. Family Portrait

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Description: Formal studio portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., his wife, and their two sons. McCormick was president of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company from...
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Carrie Chapman Catt

Date: 1911
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt.
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Young Vinnie Ream Hoxie

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Description: Head and shoulders oval-framed formal studio portrait of Vinnie Ream Hoxie.
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Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1885
Description: Formal studio portrait of Belle Case La Follette wearing a black lace dress. This photograph was taken about 1885, the year in which her husband, Robert M....
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Father Holding Child

Date: 1960
Description: A father is holding his young son in his arms.
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Mrs. Roseline Peck

Date: 1874
Description: Waist-up portrait of Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, the first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, E...
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Chief Oshkosh

Date: 1850
Description: Drawing of Chief Oshkosh rendered from a daguerreotype by J.F. Harrison. He is wearing a top hat wrapped with a ribbon. Also a suitcoat, bowtie, beaded nec...
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Edna Ferber with Pearls

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Susie Redhorn "HiNukIGa" (Woman), daughter of Frank Redhorn and Lucy Prettyman, shown in later years posing by two baskets. The photograph was taken at the...
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Daisy Bates

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Description: Head and shoulder portrait of Daisy Bates, head of the Arkansas NAACP and a key figure in the Little Rock school desegregation crisis of September 1957.
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Jerusha Abigail Wilcox Sturgis (Juty)

Date: 1880
Description: Profile portrait of Jerusha Sturgis, wife of Samuel Davis Sturgis I and mother of Nina Dousman. Born December 1, 1827; Died July 4, 1915.
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Woman with Toasters

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Description: Woman comparing toaster wattages.
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Woman with Blender

Date: 03 18 1955
Description: Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove.
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Woman Using Sewing Machine

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a Necchi sewing machine. Advertisements are in the background.
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Church Skit

Date: 06 26 1963
Description: Hope United Church of Christ members are putting on a skit of the "roaring twenties."

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