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Deathbed Scene

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Description: Illustration drawing of a European deathbed scene around 1870. The drawing features a woman lying in a canopied bed and grieving loved ones.
Print

Kenosha Crib Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Kenosha Crib Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of the Latest in Children's Cribs". Features an outdoor scene of a child stand...
Photograph

Film Still of Movie Poster fom "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of a movie poster. A well-dressed man with a menacing facial expression and raised arm is standing by a bed, looking into mirror.
Photograph

Film Still from "The Bride of Hate"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of Interior bedroom with young woman in bed being comforted by a servant - a white actress in blackface. ("Black face" is written on the back of...
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Headquarters Detachment Quarters, Interior

Date: 1918
Description: The interior sleeping quarters for the headquarters detachment of the 310th U.S. Army Engineer Corps. In the room are sleeping bunks, a woodstove, and clot...
Postcard

Gag Photo of a Man Posing with Paper Woman

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Description: A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding...
Photograph

Streetcar Home

Date: 12 12 1937
Description: Old streetcar stabilized, adapted and furnished as living quarters, and its occupant.
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Mrs. Cadle

Date: 1889
Description: Mrs. Cadle seated in a bedroom, looking out a window. On the table in front of her is a cup and saucer.
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Dorm at Downer College

Date: 1895
Description: Interior of a student's room at Downer (women's) College. Two banjos rest on the chaise in front of the window.
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Self-Portrait in Mirror

Date: 1880
Description: A female photographer takes a self-portrait in a mirror. The left and bottom frame of the mirror are in the foreground. Her camera is an Eastman Kodak Comp...
Photograph

Esser Sisters, Julie and Jane

Date: 02 1962
Description: The Esser sisters, Julie and Jane, stand in a crib with their hands on the foot board. A lamb decal decorates the crib.
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Room at the Eugene Hotel

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Description: A room at the Eugene Hotel, with a bed, dresser, tables, luggage rack, chairs, lamps and a telephone. There is a sink in the corner of the room. The hotel ...
Photograph

Mother's Room

Date: 1900
Description: A highboy dresser, left, and its lowboy counterpart flank the large bay window in Louise Mears Fargo's bedroom. There is an electic wall sconce on either s...
Photograph

Smoking in Bed

Date: 1920
Description: A young man, possibly Forest Middleton, lying on a painted iron bed with a bed spread covering him. He is holding a lighted cigarette in his left hand; a c...
Poster

Pour que vos enfants ne connaissent plus les horreurs de la guerre, souscrivez á l'Emprunt National

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a woman standing and holding in her arms a small child wearing a nightgown. They are next to a bed with a doll resting on th...
Postcard

Madison General Hospital, Corner of a Six-Bed Room

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Description: Interior view of a hospital room with patients in the beds. One patient is reading a newspaper. Caption reads: "Madison General Hospital, Madison, Wis. Co...
Photograph

Glynis Johns with Mermaid Tail

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Description: Two women are arranging a mermaid tail over actress Glynis Johns. The latter is in a special bed that is hiding her legs. They are preparing to shoot a sce...
Photograph

Clara Kimball Young in "When Mary Grew Up"

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Description: Julia Swayne Gordon, Flora Finch, and Clara Kimball Young are seen in a still from the 1913 short "When Mary Grew Up." Young is dressed as a boy but has he...
Photograph

Herbert Paul Brumder

Date: 1923
Description: Herbert Brumder is reflected in the center mirror of a vanity in the bedroom of his home at 2030 East Lafayette Place. Partially obscuring the mirrors are ...
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Bedroom

Date: 1924
Description: A floor lamp is standing on the left beside a chaise lounge in a bedroom of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsi...

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