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Martha and Notley Henderson

Date: 1885
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Martha and Notley Henderson with their three children. Their son Allen is standing. The Hendersons were e...
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Family Portrait

Date: 1941
Description: Copy of a family portrait that includes a father, daughter and three sons. Two people on the right are only partially visible.
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Family Portrait

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Description: Family portrait of mother, father and 8 children (ca. 1900).
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Studio Portrait of Joe Thunderking Lowe and Family

Date: 1904
Description: Studio portrait of a large Ho-Chunk group posing in front of a painted backdrop, including five men, three women, three girls, and two smaller children. Th...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man and Girl

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Description: A studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and girl in front of a painted backdrop. The man is wearing a suit coat with a checked shirt underneath and is posed si...
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Staged Scene of Dying Man

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Description: An actor playing a dying or dead man surrounded by a small group of people, including men, women and children. The image was staged at Harry Dankoler's pho...
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Group Posed with Rifles and Pistols

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Description: A group of men, women and children posed in Harry Dankoler's photography studio holding rifles and pistols as if they were surrounded.
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Group Watching Man Ride Sawhorse

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Description: A group in front of a backdrop watches a man in the foreground ride a sawhorse as if it were a real horse. The image was staged at Harry Dankoler's photogr...
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Large Group Seated in Photography Studio

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Description: A large group of people posed in chairs at Harry Dankoler's photography studio. Syl is the youngest child on the front row near the center aisle on the rig...
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Quinney Family

Date: 1900
Description: Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Quinney family, including Bridget (O'Keefe) Quinney, her sons Thomas (Tom) and William (Bill), ...
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Holloway Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James and Mary Bray Holloway and their children, Lizzie and Will.
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Cotton Workers

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Description: Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two African American agricultural workers picking cotton, location unknown. A little girl sits in a...
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Nguyen Family Portrait

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Description: A studio portrait of the Nguyen family. From left to right are: Thuy, Trong (father), Minh, Hong (mother), Mary, Kim (grandfather), and Charlie.
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Nyhus Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eleven members of the Nyhus family, including four women, four men, and three young boys.
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John Johnston and Daughter Hilda

Date: 1884
Description: Cabinet card of Hilda Johnston (1883-1974), age one year, and her father, John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker.
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Rogers Family

Date: 1917
Description: Portrait of some of the William Henry Rogers family. Pictured are Maude Rogers Taylor, her parents, William and Martha, and her second son, Lynn H. Taylor.
Postcard

Young Men and Women Posing with Nun

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a nun, one young man and five young women in front of a painted backdrop. The children are all ho...
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African American Man Standing Next to Young Girl on Pony

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Description: Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ...
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Studio Portrait of a Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man and woman posed sitting. The man is holding a small girl, and is surrounded by a man, two young wom...
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Studio Portrait of Small Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man posed sitting surrounded by a standing woman, girl and boy.

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