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Mother's Day

Date: 04 23 1963
Description: A grandmother with daughter and granddaughter. They are nicely dressed for mother's day.
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Crocheting Doilies

Date: 04 17 1957
Description: A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother."
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Joseph Oden La Follette and His Grandmother

Date: 11 16 1933
Description: Joseph Oden La Follette, the son of Senator Robert La Follette, Jr., being held by his maternal grandmother, Harriet Oden of Washington, D.C.
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Four Generation Portrait

Date: 03 17 1933
Description: Four generation portrait taken for Nola McGann (Mrs. Louis).
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Portrait of Elderly Ho-Chunk Woman and Two Girls

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Description: Studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk woman with a shawl over her shoulders posing with two Ho-Chunk girls in front of a painted backdrop. The woman on th...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk group. Rachel Funmaker, Winneshiek is sitting on the left wearing earrings, and a small child is on the right sitting on a st...
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Elderly Ho-Chunk Woman and Children

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Description: Studio portrait of Mary Snowball, Decorra, Buffalohead (Pay Dok Se Kah), (Daughter of [Wau Soo Mon E Kah] Snow Ball and mother [Wa Con Cha Ka Win Kah], she...
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Elderly Ho-Chunk Man and Boy in Lodge

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Description: An elderly Ho-Chunk man is laying down and sleeping behind a Ho-Chunk boy who is sitting, possibly inside of a Ho-Chunk lodge or tent. A lantern is hanging...
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Olivia Douglass Se Cheverell

Date: 07 29 1949
Description: Mrs. L.L. (Olivia Douglass) Se Cheverell sitting in a chair while surrounded by four great grandchildren. She is celebrating her 100th birthday.
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Family in Living Room

Date: 1910
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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Dillinger's — Interior

Date: 10 26 2001
Description: "Sarah, our waitress joins our group, as well as Parker, Carly & Kay Hren."
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Raceway Pub and Grill — Interior

Date: 03 08 2002
Description: "At Raceway, Vicki, our waitress, joins our group that includes the Hren family, Kay, and her two children Parker and Carly. Vicki, tells us that her grand...
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F. and G. Stanley Families

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Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of some 22 members of the F. and G. Stanley families, associated with the F. and G. Stanley Manufacturing Pla...
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Lunda Family

Date: 06 23 1954
Description: Group portrait of four generations gathered at the home of 91-year-old Carrie Lunda. She is shown with her son, Ernest M. Lunda of Muskegon, Michigan; her ...
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Family in Living Room

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Description: In the center is a man posing sitting in a chair. Beside him on the left are two teenage girls standing near a doorway, and on the right standing next to h...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 543-553

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Description: The first time out of doors in shirtsleeves is a moment of kindlier feeling,
of stern and lonely reservations gladly set aside.

With the passing ...
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Karly Hren and Edna Knueppel

Date: 04 1997
Description: Carly Hren pushes Edna Knueppal at the Lutheran Home.
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Queen of the Day

Date: 04 1948
Description: Mrs. Caroline Meyer, 88, being crowned as queen of the day at the centennial program of the Town Mesne Farm Bureau. Mrs. Meyer was honored as the oldest mo...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of unidentified family. Two women are posing sitting on the left and right, and between them is a girl stand...

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