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Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
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Moccasin

Date: 1885
Description: Early carte-de-visite of a Ho-Chunk man identified as Moccasin. The backdrop indicates the photograph came from Charles Van Schaick’s studio, but it may ha...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Girls Wearing Bugle Beads

Date: 1885
Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk girls posing in front of a painted backdrop. A small Ho-Chunk girl is posing sitting in a tasseled arm chair on the left, a...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Girl Wearing Wampum

Date: 1885
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk girl posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. She has her left hand resting on an overstuffed tasseled cha...
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Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 1885
Description: Headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic in Washington, District of Columbia in 1885.
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Two Girls Sitting on Bench

Date: 1885
Description: Two young girls in white dresses trimmed with lace posing for a studio portrait on a bench covered with a kilim rug.
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Washing Hands

Date: 1885
Description: Wisconsin National Guard members washing their hands in metal pans before a meal.
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Beer Barons

Date: 1885
Description: Six prominent German American brewers pose outdoors, seated around a table, for a portrait labeled "The Poterhouse [sic] Club." Well-dressed in suits and h...
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School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...

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