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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | An elderly man and woman sit for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long, dark dress, and he is wearing a suit jacket over ... |
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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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| Description: | A seated elderly woman wearing a hat poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | A seated elderly woman holding a book on her lap poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | An elderly woman sits in a stuffed chair and poses for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a seated elderly woman wearing a casual dress in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | An elderly couple sit surrounded by two other adults standing behind them, and four children, two boys and two girls. They are posing in front of a painted... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Madame Thérèse Schindler (1774-1855), an early resident of Mackinac Island. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of an elderly Native American couple, with the husband seated wearing a suit jacket and trousers, and his wife standing to his left in fr... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a seated elderly man with a beard, and an elderly woman in a dress standing beside him. Both are wearing hats in front of a painted ba... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a seated elderly man wearing a suit jacket, vest, necktie, and trousers, and an elderly woman in a long dress with a lace collar, standi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk woman, Mary Snowball Decorra Buffalohead (PayDokSeKah [Edge of brow is yellow]), sitting and holding a p... |
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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... |
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