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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| Date: | 05 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Members of a musician's union playing cards together. |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reap... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reap... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Leander James McCormick (1819-1900) by the Century Publishing and Engraving Company. Leander was a younger brother of Cyrus Hall McCor... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 06 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Seven East High School seniors and one woman sitting on stage with a tiered birthday cake with candles. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A portrait of a Menominee family in traditional dress. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an elderly couple, both seated in chairs in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | The Old Timers Club of Milwaukee waves for a motion picture being made at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 09 29 1955 |
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| Description: | The string trio of the Older Adult Klub (OAK), Gus Torgerson, Henry Brenneman, and Julia Bennett, rehearsing for a senior citizen workshop on recreation fo... |
| Date: | 08 18 1977 |
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| Description: | Sally Perringer (in the foreground) plays the Stumpf fiddle in the Firehouse Band from Port Washington. The performance took place at the eighth annual pic... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Eleanore A. Brown Haydon McGowan just after her 100th birthday. A portrait of of Timothy Brown II hangs above her. |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Evan M. Hughes, 68, a war-time replacement as doorman at the Capitol Theatre. Mr. Hughes had a son, Pvt. Robert E. Hughes, who was a prisoner of war by the... |
| Date: | 10 30 1909 |
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| Description: | An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn.... |
| Date: | 03 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Isora Wilson, 432 N. Murray Street, has a collection of turnip dolls that she has made to resemble Charles Dickens' characters Pickwick and Scrooge. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two elderly men in suits, one standing and the other, James Gorman, sitting on a table. |
| Date: | 04 05 1948 |
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| Description: | Martin Christiansen of Edgerton, the oldest fiddler at the Old-Time Fiddlers contest at the Madison Community Center. He is 77 and has been playing almost ... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of William Triggs Sterling sitting in a chair and holding an ornate walking stick in front of a painted backdrop. |
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