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Collapsed Barn

Date: 1920
Description: Two men and a child look at a barn that has collapsed, possibily due to a windstorm or tornado.
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At Muscoda's First Cheese Day

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Group portrait of children in costume posed on the back of a truck decorated with streamers for the Cheese Day Parade. Some of the children hold handwritte...
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At Muscoda's First Cheese Day

Date: 10 24 1930
Description: Group portrait of children posed on flatbed truck decorated with streamers as a float for Cheese Day. A sign reads: "Cheese is King," and a boy dressed as ...
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Class Group Portrait Featuring Emma Schmitt

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor class group portrait of the 5th and 6th grades of Muscoda Public School. An "X" marks Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett). Boys kneel in...
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William Schmitt Fishing

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard along shoreline of a group of people fishing at Rudolph Mill. Sherwin Gillett's wife's cousin, William Schmitt, is standing in the fo...
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Sunday School Class

Date: 1900
Description: Emma Schmitt's (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) Sunday School class. Emma is in the first one on the left in the first row.
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School Picnic

Date: 06 30 1905
Description: Group portrait of a Muscoda Public School picnic. Emma Schmitt (later Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) is on the far left of the top row. The 1905 Wisconsin Census ha...
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Father #31;— Mother Golden Wedding

Date: 06 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Conrad and Mary Schmitt's (Emma Gillett's parents) Golden Wedding Anniversary.
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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.
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Lorin Gillett (1915-1985)

Date: 1920
Description: Indoor portrait of Lorin Gillett at approximately five years of age.
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The Gillett Children

Date: 1916
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Sherry (b. 1913), Lorin (b. 1915), and Harry (b. 1910).
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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).
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Lorin Gillett as a Child

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

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