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Filter: Creator Name of Van Schaick, Charles
| 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... |
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| Description: | A teacher and students posing outdoors in the schoolyard of Shamrock School. The teacher is holding a reading chart and the children are holding books. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A woman plays the organ, while two women, wearing hats, and three men, gather behind her, holding song books. They are enclosed by a low, circular railing;... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a man posing sitting in a chair at a table with books on top, possibly Janus (James) Bruce Cartter, 1815-1897. He is in front of a paint... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing around an organ. A young woman in a white dress is sitting at the organ, facing left, with an older man behind her on the right. On ... |
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| Description: | View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
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| Description: | Three women seated in front of a roll-top office desk, possibly the office of John Forbes over the old Fire Hall. A covered typewriter on the table and a t... |
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| Description: | Woman with books posed standing on a board sidewalk, possibly in front of the William T. Price home. |
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| Description: | A young girl pages through a book while sitting on a woman's lap. Another woman wearing gloves and a fur coat hands the sitting girl a book while another g... |
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| Description: | A man and a woman sit by a desk in a corner of a room that holds various books and papers. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of William Tennant, sitting in a chair wearing a suit jacket and trousers. He is holding a cane and a book 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: | A seated woman holds a book in her lap while a young girl stands behind her, both posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Four young women sitting around a table and reading books while posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing white blouses... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two women standing near a chair and reading from the same book in front of a painted backdrop. They both wear similar black dresses an... |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of a man wearing a hat, suit jacket, and trousers seated on a stool, and a woman standing next to him, with a fence behind them. The ma... |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of a woman seated near a tree, holding a book titled "Our Friends," with a fence in the background. |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of a young man standing near a porch. He is resting his hand on a book on a table. |
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| Description: | Portrait of a man and a woman posed sitting in the corner of a room near a desk and two book stands. The desk has a clock and many books on it. |
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