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Gesell Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts.
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Woman Eating Canned Food

Date: 05 1926
Description: A woman wearing a beaded dress and necklace is sitting at a table to eat canned corn and peaches.
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Packing Cherries

Date: 07 23 1924
Description: A group of men and women pack cherries on a workbench made of planks and sawhorses. Wooden fruit crates are stacked in a truck and on the ground. There are...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's son Fedy (Ferdinand Leonard Hotz), in hat, and daughters pick cherries at the family orchard. Two of his daughters are standing on orcha...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, center, and two of his daughters, on the right, pick cherries with others in the family's orchard. They have small pail...
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Chef Carson Gulley's Cooking Show

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Description: Chef Carson Gulley and Beatrice Gulley, Carson's wife, who appeared in this program with Gulley, on Madison television station WMTV. They are being fil...
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Vel Phillips with Man and Two Children

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, wearing a brown and blue patterned dress, is standing on the right holding a bouquet of flowers. A unidentified man is standing on the left, ...
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Vel Phillips with People and Watermelons

Date: 06 1972
Description: Vel Phillips, standing on right, is in a brown and blue patterned buba (a Yoruba blouse) and holding a bouquet of flowers. Next to her (second from right) ...
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Marion Barry

Date: 06 12 1976
Description: Casual portrait of Councilman Marion Barry of Washington, D.C., sitting on a railing, eating an apple. He was attending the Conference on Alternative State...
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Under the Apple Tree

Date: 05 19 1905
Description: Mae (Margaret) von der Sump is holding a branch of blossoms as she poses with her mother, Bertha, and father Frank under an apple tree in full bloom. There...
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Watermelon Seed Fight

Date: 1916
Description: Jeannette Holt, family and friends are laughing and having a watermelon seed fight in front of Island Lodge. Names from left to right: Jeannette Holt, unkn...

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