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Crochet Club

Date: 1900
Description: Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind a home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported bran...
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Woman Sweeping

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Description: A woman (possibly a member of the Weller family) sweeps a board sidewalk with a broom. On the left is the Weller home, and next to it is the Carl Lund hous...
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Woman Hanging Laundry

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Description: A woman hangs laundry on a clothesline.
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Women in Garden

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Description: Two women work in a garden. One of the women is picking vegetables, while the other woman hangs laundry.
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Large Picnic Group

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Description: A large picnicking group sits at a long table among a grove of trees.
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Large Group of Picnickers

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Description: A group of men, women, and children sitting at a long table in a grove of trees enjoying a picnic.
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Group Having Picnic in Yard

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Description: A large group of men, women and children gather for a picnic in a grove of trees near a frame house.
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Women and Young Child near Hammock

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Description: Four women sit in or near a hammock and attend to their embroidery while a young boy sits at their feet.
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Kitchen Crew

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Description: Four men wearing white aprons attend to kitchen duties outdoors at a campsite. There is a tent in the background.
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Man Cooking Over Open Fire

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Description: A man wearing an apron cooks over an open fire at a campsite near a tent. Smoke or sunlight obscures the image.
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Outdoor Meal

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Description: A group of men and women eat at a table underneath a tent awning.
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Classroom at Christmastime

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view, with desks in the foreground, of an elementary classroom decorated with a Christmas tree near the blackboard, and other holiday decorations,...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: A Ho-Chunk group dressed in regalia standing behind an elderly woman, sitting, and child who is standing. The man with the rifle has an appliqué blanket wr...
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Ho-Chunk Summer Lodges

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Description: Ho-Chunk summer lodges behind a fence surrounded by trees. In the foreground is a wagon.
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Ho-Chunk Lodges, Tent, and Wooden Building

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Description: A Ho-Chunk winter lodge frame without skins, cattail matting, or fabric. In the background among trees is another Ho-Chunk lodge, tent, and wooden building...
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Ho-Chunk Summer Lodges in Field

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Description: Ho-Chunk summer lodges in a field. The lodge in the center has a stove pipe coming out the top. On the left is what appears to be a grinding wheel mounted ...
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Ho-Chunk Women and Girl Making Fry Bread

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Description: Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ...
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Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Group of Ho-Chunk men, women, and children in a circle, and in smaller groups outside the circle. They are several summer lodges. Probably a meal.
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Woman with Infant in Wheelbarrow

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Description: A view of a woman feeding an infant with a bottle while outdoors. The infant is sitting in a wheelbarrow in front of her. A scattering of buildings are in ...
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...

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