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First Dutch Settlers

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Description: Dutch family posing outside their log home with two horses.
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Christmas Pudding-Woolson Spice Co.

Date: 1890
Description: Chromolithographed card issued by the Woolson Spice Co. to present Christmas greetings to its customers. The card depicts children around a Christmas tree,...
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Oak Hill Farm with Couple

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Description: View of Oak Hill Farm, including the farmhouse. In the foreground are a man standing on the left, a woman sitting with a cat in her lap, and a dog.
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Seneca Native American Family

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Description: A group portrait of a Seneca Native American family, with a man, woman, four children, and a kitten. Caption reads: "Seneca Indian Family, Salamanca, N.Y."
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Relaxing in the Adirondacks

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Description: A man and woman relaxing in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State. The woman is holding a cat, and a dog is curled up near her feet.
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Clara Kimball Young Holding a Black Cat

Date: 1915
Description: Heavily retouched seated portrait of the silent film star Clara Kimball Young with a black cat on her lap. Original caption: "Clara Kimball Young who w...
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Family in Living Room

Date: 1910
Description: View of a family relaxing in the living room of their home. Features men, women, and children sitting around a table. Caption reads: "A Happy Home in Orogr...
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Emma Ketel Sewing

Date: 1900
Description: Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her.
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Merry Christmas From All of Us

Date: 1936
Description: Holiday card for the Bancroft Dairy Company in Madison, Wisconsin. The card is folded so that as you open each panel, you see a new scene. Many different e...
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Neverland, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C...
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
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Dessicated Cat Mascot, Anubis

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Description: Ellen MacQuarrie (later Ellen Wilson), a journalist at the "Milwaukee Journal" and the wife of Gordon MacQuarrie, looking at Anubis, the dessicated cat tha...
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Family with Pets and Dead Fox

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Description: A family poses outdoors in the snow in front of their house. The father proudly holds a dead fox. The mother and youngest child stand on the left, and the ...
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Lady Rowing on Lake Mendota with Cat

Date: 1895
Description: A woman wearing a hat, high-collared blouse, jacket, and long skirt sits in a rowboat while rowing a small boat, presumably on Lake Mendota. A cat sits at ...
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Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
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Gale Manufacturing Co. Advertising Card

Date: 1878
Description: Front and back of advertising card for the New Gale Chilled Plow. On the front is a color illustration of a man sitting at the base of a tree pulling the t...
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Kissinger Family Greetings

Date: 10 1968
Description: Judy and Clark Kissinger, along with their daughters Jennifer and Jessica, send greetings to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the form of a popular finger gest...
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J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers

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Description: View from street of the front of the J.E. Rhodes & Co., Pork and Beef Packers building on Main Street. A group of men, with a cat and a dog, are posing in ...
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Hotel Noble Menu

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Description: Front covers of gate fold Hotel Noble menu, with two "hillbilly" figures: one stands barefoot and holds a rifle while a dog sleeps at his feet; the other i...
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The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...

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