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| Date: | 09 10 1968 |
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| Description: | Elderly women sit around a card table and play cards at a new senior center. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms. |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Indoor view of an elderly man posing sitting in a chair, and an elderly woman standing. They are probably in a bedroom. Perhaps the Peterson family. |
| Date: | 11 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Copy of a portrait of an old woman, taken for Mrs. Dean. |
| Date: | 08 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. George (Adelaide) Larkin at age 90. George Larkin was the son of Jonathan Larkin, Jr., member of an early Madison family which arrived in ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Gabe E. Mickelson (Maria Thompson), taken on the occasion of her 89th birthday. |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Miss Ellen C. Sabin, president emerita of Milwaukee-Downer College, on her 95th birthday. Miss Sabin was one of America's most eminent woman in the field o... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk woman sitting and wearing long bead strands. In the background is a painted backdrop. Mary Snowball, Dec... |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Jane McIlquaham sitting in an armchair on her 100th birthday. A floral arrangement is on a table behind her. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls. |
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| Description: | A portrait of an old African American couple sitting on a porch. The woman on the left is smoking a pipe and is holding a small dog in her lap, and the man... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a family relaxing in the living room of their home. Features men, women, and children sitting around a table. Caption reads: "A Happy Home in Orogr... |
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| Description: | View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th... |
| Date: | 07 28 1913 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a reunion of Company K, 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, on the Trautwein farm. The company on this occasion were the guests of Mr. And ... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait of Mrs. C.J. Van Schaick, sitting in front of a painted backdrop. She is facing toward the right in profile, and is we... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of two women posing in front of a painted backdrop. The woman sitting on the left is older and is wearing a white shawl over he... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified woman sits in a rocking chair holding the Middleton family dog, Tootsie, and a cat. The pets are dressed in gowns and the cat wears a sweat... |
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