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Children and Their Pets

Date: 12 05 1950
Description: Brothers Billy Jasper, age 6, and Tommy Jasper, age 2, posing on shag carpeting with their Springer Spaniels, "Cissie" and "Mike."
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Living Room at Christmas Time

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Description: View of living room featuring an elaborately upholstered armchair, a small decorated Christmas tree atop a table, and two long-haired lap dogs posing on th...
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Meadowside Hotel

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Description: View across lobby area towards a woman sitting in an upholstered chair near a fireplace in the Meadowside Hotel. A mounted moose head hangs above the mantl...
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Cat

Date: 1910
Description: The Middleton family cat poses near a basket on a table which is covered by an oriental carpet.
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Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
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Grace May Hall as a Circus Child

Date: 1891
Description: Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck.
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Studio Portrait of Unidentified European American Group

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Description: Full-length studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two women posing sitting and flanking a girl, a child, and a dog lying on the carpet.
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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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Child Posing with Dog

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Description: Indoor portrait of a toddler wearing a white dress sitting on a carpet on the floor with a dog.
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Old Maid's Hall

Date: 1905
Description: A young woman, Jessie Underwood, reclining supported on one elbow on a fur rug in front of a piano. In front of her lying on the rug is a cat. Light comes ...
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Woman and Child with Dog

Date: 1930
Description: A woman and young girl are posing, sitting on the ground on a patterned carpet, with a dog resting with them. The woman has forearm tattoos, multiple brace...
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Home Decorated with Articles from India

Date: 06 17 1958
Description: Agatha Fowlkes, wearing a sari, sits in her den which is furnished completely with articles from India. The leopard rug was made from the skin of an animal...
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Woman, Child and Dog with Painted Portraits

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Description: A large dog, named Barry, is sitting on the left, next to a young child (Sigrid) sitting in a chair. A woman, Sigrid's mother Hedwig, is standing behind th...
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Woman, Child and Dog with Painted Portraits

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Description: A large dog named Barry is standing in the center, and a woman, Sigrid's mother Hedwig, is standing behind a chair on the left. In front of the chair is a ...
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David Rumsey and Spotty

Date: 01 1915
Description: On the carpeted floor, David Rumsey is leaning on Spotty the dog, possibly in the home of Lucy and W.A. Holt.
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Will and Cutter

Date: 1905
Description: Will von der Sump sitting in a small sleigh with a glossy finish. He is bundled in a fur coat with a high collar, and is wearing a cap. There is a fur lap ...
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Girls with Squirrel

Date: 1905
Description: An available light, interior view of two girls, identified on the negative envelope as Ella and Thresa [sic] Alson, flanking a small table. There is a live...
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The Big Catch

Date: 1952
Description: A young boy is kneeling and holding a stringer of fish while a baby sitting on the left is reaching out to touch it.
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Joseph Mabbett Allcott

Date: 1856
Description: Carte-de-visite of Joseph Mabbett Allcott, proprietor of J.M. Allcott & Co. drug store in Milwaukee. He is sitting in a chair, with a dog resting at his fe...

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