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Family Outside of One-Story House

Date: 1898
Description: Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Couple

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Description: Studio portrait of Will Thunder (NaKikSayWaHeKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder.) He is wearing a ...
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Studio Portrait of Little Wolf Woman, Henry Greencrow, and Bella Hall

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man posing standing and wearing a suit and bow tie, flanked by two young Ho-Chunk women standing in front of a painted ...
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Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Women and a Ho-Chunk Girl

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the left. She is wearing several necklaces, earrings, and a plaid dres...
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Portrait of Four Ho-Chunk Men and Women

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk men sitting in front wearing suit coats and several necklaces, gorgets, and moccasins. Two Ho-Chunk women are standing behi...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Boy and Infant Wearing Shell Necklace

Date: 1890
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk boy posing standing on the left, wearing a winter coat, German silver earrings, and a bandana ...
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Studio Portrait of Thomas Thunder in Regalia

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (Hoonk Ha Ga Kah) (Son of [Wa Con Cha Kah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [We Hon Pe Kaw] Lucy Bea...
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Studio Portrait of Frieda Schoessers

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of a young woman wearing a dress standing with her left arm resting on a chair covered with a throw. In the background...
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Portrait of Mrs. C.J. Van Schaick

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of Mrs. C.J. Van Schaick, sitting in front of a painted backdrop. She is facing toward the right in profile, and is we...
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Portrait of a Woman and Child

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Description: Full-length portrait of a seated woman and a standing girl in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is wearing a dark dress with a collar pin, and has her...
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Portrait of a Woman Wearing a Hat

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop. She has her hands resting on a velvet upholstered, curved backed c...
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Studio Portrait of a Standing Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a long dress with velvet accents, a bracelet, a ring, and a ...
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Studio Portrait of Two Women Wearing Elaborate Hats

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women posing in front of a painted backdrop. The woman sitting on the left is older and is wearing a white shawl over he...
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Indoor Group Portrait

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Description: One man and two women are posed standing around a table in a parlor. One of the woman is holding open an album of photographs. Behind them another woman si...
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Back River Falls High School Class of 1894

Date: 1894
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of six men posed standing, two men and four women posed sitting. Probably the Black River Falls High School ...
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Family in Front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of men, women and children posing in front of a single-story frame house. The man on the left is holding a shotgun, the man next to him is h...
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Portrait of Bessie Jones Richards

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Description: Studio portrait of a European American girl with long curly hair posed sitting in a chair with trim along the bottom. She wearing a light-colored dress wit...
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Potrait of Lena Baumel

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American woman posed standing partially behind a chair. She is resting he...
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Wally and Stella Hirsch

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Description: Studio portrait of two European American women sitting on a chair. The woman on the left is sitting on the arm of the chair and is wearing a dark-colored d...
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Anna Oderbolz and Hattie Roddy

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two European American women posed sitting in near profile. The woman on the left is looking to the right,...

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