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Piano in the Parlor

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Description: Color postcard of the parlor in the Nelson Dewey Home featuring the old square piano in the corner.
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Dewey Home Office

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Description: Color postcard of interior view of the office the Dewey Home featuring the desk and bookshelves.
Postcard

Child's Bedroom

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Description: Color postcard of the daughter's bedroom in the Dewey home.
Photograph

Mr. & Mrs. B.W. Gillett

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Description: Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bradford and Alice Gillett, Sherwin Gillett's uncle and aunt. There is a framed portrait of two children on a ta...
Photograph

Muscoda High School Basketball Team

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ...
Photograph

Muscoda High School Basketball Team

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls' Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ...
Photograph

Interior of Conrad Schmitt Home

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of the parlor of the Conrad Schmitt (Sherwin Gillett's father-in-law) home. Family photographs are on the wall and on the piano.
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Sherwin Gillett Double Exposure

Date: 1904
Description: Trick photograph featuring two images of Sherwin Gillett doing laundry in a washtub. He is posing in front of a painted backdrop.
Photograph

Trelawny House Sitting Room at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Interior view of a sitting room at Trelawny House, with period chairs, a bookcase and a painting of sheep above the fireplace.
Photograph

Pendarvis House Room

Date: 1936
Description: An interior view of a room in Pendarvis House. To the right of the fireplace is a dresser in the corner. On the left of the fireplace is a drop-leaf table....
Photograph

The Conrad Schmitt Family

Date: 1892
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906.
Photograph

Polperro House Second Floor at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Room on the second floor in Polperro House. In the center is a stairwell up to the next floor, a bookshelf in the right corner, and a portrait of a man abo...
Photograph

Trelawny House Bedroom at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Bedroom in Trelawny House. Furniture includes a 4-poster bed, two chairs, a chest, a dresser, and a wash basin and ewer on a stand.
Photograph

Polperro House Sitting Room at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Sitting room in Polperro House. Rocking chairs and a bench are by the fire in the fireplace. A corner china cabinet is on the right near a window.
Photograph

Braided Rugs

Date: 10 08 1959
Description: Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug.
Photograph

The Gillett Children

Date: 1920
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Harry (b. 1910), Sherry (b. 1913), and Lorin (b. 1915).
Photograph

Lorin Gillett as a Child

Date: 1919
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young Lorin Gillett sitting on a stool.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Study, Walmar Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: The study at Walmar Lodge. There is a piano against the far wall, chairs by the windows, and a fireplace on the opposite wall.
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Bertine Benson and Amelia Torkelson

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young European American women posed standing side-by-side with their arms around each oth...

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