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Streetcar Home

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

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Description: Unidentified elderly man seated on bed.
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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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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...
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Woman Posing Behind a Plant Stand

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Description: Portrait of a woman wearing a light-colored dress posing standing behind a plant stand with a flower arrangement. Behind her is an organ against the wall. ...
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Two Women in a Bedroom

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Description: View across bedroom towards two women sitting together. The woman on the right is holding a guitar. On the left is a dresser with a mirror, and a bed in th...
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Interior of Cabin I at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying several scenes from the interior of Cabin I. Includes photographs of girls on bunk beds, storage areas next...
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Elderly Man Asleep

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Description: An elderly man is lying on his side, against the corner of a wall, facing the camera, with a pillow and quilt. Wainscoting covers the wall behind him, and ...
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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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Remodeling a Country Schoolhouse

Date: 07 09 1962
Description: Kenneth R. Colwell, a social worker with the Wisconsin State Department of Public Welfare, Division of Mental Hygiene, bought the abandoned Twin Valley sch...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 72

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Description: Old skin is yet alive to whispered lashings,
the quick-step dried and gone to the bone.
Embrace the wall and face away from trouble
in the winter ...
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The Big Job of Baby Sitting

Date: 03 16 1965
Description: Trained baby sitter Dan Unmuth, 13, is shown straightening out the bedding of his lively charge, Danny Groh, 15 months.
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Margaret McGuire's Roomates

Date: 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, (5th from left), with six of her roommates and the House Mother, Ms. Welch, at Whitewater State University. They are ...
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Paintings on Walls

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Description: View of interior of Sid's bedroom with a number of paintings and other artworks framed and displayed on a wall in the corner of a room. There are clothes h...
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Christine Peterson with New Baby

Date: 11 1912
Description: Christine Peterson holding her new baby, James. She is sitting up in bed and is wearing a nightgown.
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The Blair Residence

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Description: Edward McCormick and Elizabeth Blair House, Keck and Keck Project #500. Project date 1953. George Fred and William Keck were born in Watertown, Wisconsin, ...
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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...
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New Shoes

Date: 1922
Description: Leonore Middleton leaning forward as she is sitting on a bed trying on a pair of shoes. An unidentified Japanese woman in traditional dress is sitting on t...
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A Good Stretch

Date: 06 16 1958
Description: A boy is sitting up in bed and stretching with his mouth open, possibly in a yawn. Caption reads: "A good stretch after a long sleep and Robin Richards, 7,...
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Girl Praying for a Bright Christmas

Date: 11 17 1954
Description: A young girl kneeling at the side of a bed accompanies a plea for donating to the Empty Stocking Club organized by the Wisconsin State Journal. A st...

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