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Augustin Grignon

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its...
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Elderly Woman with Young Girl

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Description: An elderly woman sits with a young girl holding a doll for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The woman wears an elaborately decorated coat ...
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Studio Portrait of Elderly Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly Ho-Chunk man with a beard posing standing next to a prop wooden fence. He is weari...
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Older Ho-Chunk Man Wearing Fur Coat

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of an older Ho-Chunk man posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a dog (blurred by movement) in his lap, and ...
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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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Wisconsin Council of Catholic Women Founder

Date: 05 17 1950
Description: One of the founders of the Madison Catholic Women's Club and of the state council, Mrs. E.T. Baille (right) is shown chatting with Mrs. N.J. Luke Mergen, M...
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Elderly H.H. Bennett

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Description: Full-length portrait of an elderly Henry Hamilton Bennett posing in a fur hat and a coat with a fur collar.
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Reading to the Elderly

Date: 04 01 1960
Description: A fashionably dressed woman is sharing a book with an elderly woman.
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Anderson's Country Dining — Interior

Date: 01 30 1998
Description: "Stacey is our waitress at Andersons on Friess Lake, (near Holy Hill). Perch are $9.95." From left to right; Stacey, Ralph Widmer, and Shirley Widmer.
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Peter Ofstedal

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Peter Olson [as written on published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, Volume 1 and Regimental Descriptive ...
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Ole Nustad Johnson

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Description: Waist-up cabinet card portrait of Ole Nustad Johnson [as written on the photograph backing; also written as Ole Johnson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume 20, pu...
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Campaign Cupcakes

Date: 10 10 1956
Description: A young woman and an elderly woman are smiling at each other over a tray filled with cupcakes decorated with "IKE in '56" campaign buttons and tiny America...
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Nurse Examines Elderly Woman in Mobile Health Unit

Date: 1974
Description: A nurse IS examinING an elderly woman in a mobile health unit operated by the Alfred University School of Nursing. The mobile health unit traveled around c...
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Ingeborg Sidwell

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Ingeborg Sidwell wearing a patterned scarf, tied under her chin, a dark coat and eyeglasses. In 1943, she was working at the Wis...
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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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Sherwin and Emma Gillett

Date: 1957
Description: Sherwin and Emma Gillett shopping at the Legion of Honor Gift Shop.
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Christmas Party for Senior Citizens

Date: 12 17 1959
Description: Several senior citizens gather refreshments at the Christmas party put on by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. From left to right are: Henry Venger, Mrs. The...
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Christmas Party for Senior Citizens

Date: 12 17 1959
Description: Portrait of four senior citizens, among the over five-hundred who attended the Christmas party put on by Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. Left to right are ...
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon Christmas Party for Senior Citizens

Date: 12 17 1959
Description: Mrs. Mary Oliver, Mrs. Minerva Lee, Carrie Allen, and Mrs. Oliva Roepen (left to right nearest camera) join in the carol sing during the Christmas party fo...

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