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| Description: | Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A woman runs the milking operation at the G.L. Hamon dairy farm. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Farm couple seated together outdoors on the lawn, his arm around her shoulders. |
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| Description: | Twins wearing hats, jackets, and pants are sitting and standing near a wooden box with food displayed on it. |
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| Description: | Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alice F. Jackson of Madison, sitting in a chair and crocheting. |
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| Description: | A bride and groom, who are relatives of Trong and Hong Nguyen's family, stand with their wedding cake. The bride is wearing a traditional Vietnamese weddin... |
| Date: | 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms and his new wife LuRay pose in their wedding clothes, cutting the wedding cake. |
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| Description: | A young woman and a very tall man stand together in front of the cookhouse wagon. She is holding a bottle of soda and offering him a hotdog; he has his arm... |
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| Description: | View of a woman, Miss Florence, seated at a dining room table. Landscape paintings are on the paneled wall behind her. |
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| Description: | View of a woman standing near a tree in the yard with a large spinning wheel. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert sits next to Marlene Dietrich at a party thrown by Clifton Webb. They are both in formal dress. There are empty dinner plates and a bask... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with Lucy Martinelli stitching a seam using an elaborately decorated electric sewing machine. Sewing cla... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype. Waist-up portrait of Elsey Ormsbee Bristol. Elsey was born May 27, 1783; married August 1, 1804 at Warwick, Massachusetts to Cha... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Esther Elmer, 20, poses with jars of fruits and vegetables which she has canned. A fancy carpet is hanging behind her as a backdrop. She wrote on the rever... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elda Strahm, 13, poses outside her home with many prize ribbons which she won at the Green County and Wisconsin State Fairs. Another girl stands on the lef... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Edna Leonard, a student at Northey School, posing in front of shrubs near a building. On the reverse of the photograph is written: "Belongs to a local 4-H ... |
| Date: | 07 1955 |
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| Description: | Beatrice (Bea) and Carson Gulley posing together at their 25th wedding anniversary party in their new home at 5701 Cedar Place. The home was located in the... |
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| Description: | A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding... |
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