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Emerson School

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Description: A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ...
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Family Posed near Fence and Frame House

Date: 1872
Description: An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i...
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Family in Wooded Yard

Date: 1873
Description: Family posing in a wooded yard. One man holds a wooden flute. Behind them is a Greek Revival house with a Madison Mutual insurance sign over the door.
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Woman Holds Framed Portrait with Family Group

Date: 1875
Description: A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot...
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Group Posing by Organ

Date: 1899
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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Traveling Library and Organ

Date: 1897
Description: Interior view including traveling library station and organ.
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Parlor in the Bass House

Date: 1897
Description: The parlor in the home of Dr. Edward Bass showing a parlor organ near a window, and other furnishings.
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Neese, Kustermann & Root Billhead

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Description: Billhead of Neese, Kustermann & Root of Green Bay, Wisconsin, stationers, printers, book-binders, and dealers in musical instruments and sewing machines. T...
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081 - Joy Camps Choir

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Description: Joy Camps choir, consisting of counselors and campers in camp uniform, posing standing outdoors in two rows. Several campers are holding music books open. ...
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Boy Sitting at Table

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Description: A boy is sitting on a book or box on top of a chair at a small wooden table holding playing cards. Against the wall in the background are bookshelves, cove...
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Musicians

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Description: Interior portrait of five men and two women posing sitting and standing in a room holding musical instruments and sheet music.
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Family Gathered Around a Christmas Tree

Date: 1903
Description: A family, two parents and five children, gathered around a decorated Christmas Tree with gifts underneath.
Postcard

Old Wade House; Green Parlor

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the Green Parlor, with a mannequin of a man in period dress sitting in a chair. Text on reverse reads: "The Green Parlor or sitti...
Postcard

The Front Parlor: The Tallman House

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Description: Interior of the room where visitors to the Tallman House were greeted formally. Musical instruments are arranged around.
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Lucy Rumsey Holt's Concert Harp

Date: 1905
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt's concert harp and music stand are on the right side of the living room or music room. Behind the harp is a large wooden bookcase with gla...
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Church Music on Porch at Island Lodge

Date: 1916
Description: Arch McClure, on the left, is Holding a book and standing behind the home-made wooden podium that is decorated with flowers. A group of musicians is playin...

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