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Bath Time

Date: 05 08 1955
Description: A boy in the bath tub being bathed by his mother.
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Everetta Bass Sitting in Rocking Chair

Date: 1890
Description: Everetta Bass sitting nude in rocking chair on front porch.
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Everetta Bass with Rocking Horse

Date: 1890
Description: Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, standing nude next to rocking horse. She, along with the rocking horse and a baby carriage, are on an unidentif...
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Ho-Chunk Children with Dog near Marsh

Date: 
Description: Standing together in a row are two Ho-Chunk girls wearing print dresses, and two Ho-Chunk boys who are nude on a sandy pile in front of a marsh. In front o...
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Boys Undressing to Go Swimming in the Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: Boys undressing to go swimming in the Mississippi River. Alma, Wisconsin is across the river in the background.
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Panamanian Women Grinding Corn

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women grinding corn at Yawissa, near the Chucunaque River in Panama. Two women wearing wrapped fabric around their waists are grindin...
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Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
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Two Kiriwina Island Children

Date: 08 28 1943
Description: View looking up at an upset indigenous toddler wearing a banner around his middle with "1944" pasted on it. He is holding a pair of sunglasses and standing...
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Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
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Happy Days!

Date: 1944
Description: A photograghic card created by Robert Doyle to wish friends and family "Iamu Mwasawa!" A smiling, quarter-length portrait of Robert Doyle in uniform appear...
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Two Girls

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of two girls. Both are unclothed except for a strip of fabric around their waist tied with a bundle of leaves. In her journal, Carrie describes Ce...
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Black River Swimmers

Date: 
Description: Copy photograph of an outdoor view of two nude men and three boys standing on a rock formation above a river. Identified as the swimming hole in the Black ...
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William O. Petersen

Date: 1928
Description: William O. Petersen, youngest son of William F. and Alma Schmidt Petersen, plays at the Geneva Lake shore. There is a picnic basket in the background and a...
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All Aboard for Reierson Studio

Date: 1922
Description: Composite photograph of 65 photographic prints of young children and infants, trimmed out and attached to the photograph of an open bed truck parked in fro...
Historical Object

Stuart and Dorothy

Date: 1899
Description: Hand-painted poppies adorn an album page which features a photograph of Stuart, left, and Dorothy Fargo. In the photograph, Stuart is naked and has placed ...
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Bathtime

Date: 
Description: A young girl is sitting in a galvanized washtub on the floor in front of an oil burning stove and an armchair. Flowered wallpaper covers the walls. [The bo...
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Baby on the Scale

Date: 09 1932
Description: A baby, probably Donald Holt, Jr., is being weighed on a small scale outside. There is a blanket, with a geometric pattern, underneath the scale.
Book or Pamphlet

Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: view looking out of an open doorway toward two children titled: "Like Birt...

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