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Portrait of an Elderly Couple

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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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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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Four Adults and Four Children

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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...
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Studio Portrait of Elderly Couple

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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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Studio Portrait of Elderly Man and Woman

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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...
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Portrait of Elderly Ho-Chunk Woman

Date: 1920
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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Aunt Lydia

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: Aunt Lydia, a relative of the Brandel family, is wearing a dress and eyeglasses. She poses leaning against a tree.
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Studio Portrait of Betsy Thunder

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop wearing several necklaces, earrings, file bracelets, and a ribbon work sk...
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Copy Photograph of Steve Waukon and His Mother

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing on the left in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a war club, and is wearing...
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Copy Photograph of Steve Waukon and His Mother

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing on the left in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a war club, and is wearing...
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Workers in Furniture Factory

Date: 1972
Description: Elevated view of room in which several women sitting and sewing machines are sewing pieces of material for couches or sofas. A man is standing in the aisle...
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Group Portrait of Women with a Dressmaker's Dummy

Date: 1915
Description: Posed group of six women with a dressmaker's dummy.
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Elderly Woman with Children

Date: 1895
Description: Informal group portrait outdoors of elderly woman with two young children. “Laura, Elizabeth, and Aunt Ellen Richardson.”
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Joseph Olver and Family

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Description: Outdoor family portrait of three young European American men posed standing behind a middle-aged European American man and woman posed sitting. The younger...
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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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Studio Portrait of European American Couple

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified elderly woman posing standing on the left, and an unidentified elderly man po...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of the Thwaites Family

Date: 1899
Description: Outdoor group portrait of eight members of the Thwaites family. Three of the women are sitting, and one has a young boy sitting in her lap. Two men, a woma...
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Margaret McGuire and Grandmother Sitting on Porch

Date: 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, sitting on the porch floor behind her Grandmother, Mrs. Christine McGuire, who is sitting in a rocking chair. In the ...
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Mary Brandel

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: Outdoor portrait of grandmother Mary Brandel with her golf cart. She will be 80 on Jan. 24, 1961. She has two university-age grandchildren.
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Jim Kearns Family

Date: 1905
Description: James Kearns is smiling while sitting next to his wife Clara for a family portrait. Their sons Thomas and John are sitting on the ground in front of them. ...

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