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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
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Waitress Tending Table in McCormick Works Club House

Date: 06 19 1907
Description: Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Society Library

Date: 05 1896
Description: Minnie Oakley and Florence Baker Hayes (reaching for a book), two Historical Society librarians, during the period when the Society was housed in the South...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photogra...
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Wellman's Barber Shop

Date: 1874
Description: A highly decorated barber shop interior, possibly Wellman's, with three barbers and three customers. Two men are about to get shaves. A glass display case,...
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Interior of Barbershop

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Description: Barber shop with customers and shaving mug rack. African American man is probably Frank Lyons.
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Women Peeling Apples

Date: 1944
Description: Three seated women with bowls on their laps peel apples outdoors while two men stand in the background.
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University League and Its Junior Division Activities

Date: 01 23 1951
Description: Two instructors at the Truax Field homecrafters' center and two members of the University League are pictured admiring some baked enamelware made by one of...
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Pi Beta Phi Sorority Benefit Tea

Date: 11 05 1951
Description: Mrs. Mary Conley and her daughter, Barbara, wear hand-loomed mother and daughter aprons which will be on sale at the annual benefit tea held by the Pi Beta...
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Efficient Dishwashing

Date: 01 21 1953
Description: Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abi...
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Woman Carding Wool

Date: 1915
Description: A woman sitting outdoors next to a spinning wheel while carding wool.
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Woman Drying Dishes

Date: 1916
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing near a wheeled butler's tray while drying dishes in a kitchen. A sink, table, chair and utensils are behind her.
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Woman in Kitchen

Date: 1919
Description: A woman wearing an apron standing near a wheeled butler's tray in a kitchen. A sink, table, and chair are standing against the wall, and various cooking ut...
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Group in front of Log Cabin

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Description: A woman (seated) and four men pose in front of a log building with a tree stump in the foreground. One man is holding a rifle, and is also holding a dog on...
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Three Men in a Shoeshine Shop

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Description: Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e...
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Husking and Silking Corn

Date: 07 1926
Description: A woman and a girl sitting at a table, husking and silking corn at the Harvester Farm. The image is one of a series illustrating canning methods.
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Canning Corn: Removing from Cooker and Cooling

Date: 07 19 1926
Description: A woman and a girl standing in a kitchen. They are in the process of canning corn at the Harvester Farm, and are removing cans from the cooker and allowing...
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Men with Table Set for Large Meal

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Description: Man posed seated and another man standing in a large room, perhaps a shop of some kind, at a table set for a large meal. Both men are wearing aprons. On th...
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Flora Krueger with Twins

Date: 10 15 1899
Description: Flora Krueger is standing behind the twins, aged 6 months, 7 days, who are sitting in highchairs. Edgar, left, weighs 23 lbs., Jennie, right, weighs 19 lbs...
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Mrs. William Krueger

Date: 1899
Description: Portrait of Mrs. William Krueger, sitting, with a potted geranium plant placed on a table behind her. A blanket is hanging behind her as a backdrop.

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