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| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi... |
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| Description: | Amos Elliot, pioneer stage coach driver, enjoying a quiet evening at home with his second wife, and her daughter (center), Stella Hart. |
| Date: | 05 05 1963 |
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| Description: | Mother pouring tea for her twins at the mother and daughter tea, sponsored by the Brookfield Woman's Club. |
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| Description: | A Chippewa (Ojibwa) mother with two children, one of whom is in a cradleboard, at the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about N... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam... |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Mrs. Lo, seated in front of a traditional dwelling, holding her infant Little Negee. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair reading, while her daughter Everetta is sweeping the front porch of the family home. |
| Date: | 04 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Norman Beauchaine, president of Riverview PTA of Marshfield and daughter, Bonnie Lou, age 3, at a tea at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman St., ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of women mending clothes for the Quakers' relief clothing project at one of their regular Tuesday morning sessions at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (L... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph card of an American woman, posing near a Singer sewing machine. Her daughter stands on a pillow, watching as her mother sews. |
| Date: | 03 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. L.G. (Edith) Trowbridge, winner of the blue ribbon in the Wisconsin State Journal recipe contest, is slicing a loaf of her winning entry, cinna... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman sitting on the left is wearing rega... |
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| Description: | Three Mexican women in front of a hut. One woman is grinding corn with a metate, another shapes dough with her hands and the third holds a baby. Caption r... |
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| Description: | Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food. |
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| Description: | Hong Nguyen sits on the floor eating dinner. Her daughter Thuy, wearing a red and white dress, is sitting next to her, and an unidentified person is visibl... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A woman is washing clothes in a washtub. The caption below reads "My only support—both boys gone to the war. I wonder if they would take me?" Red ink on be... |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Mrs. Lo, seated in front of a traditional dwelling, holding her infant Little Negee. |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller and her daughter Ethel model dresses sewn by Elizabeth. The photograph was taken to accompany a Wisconsin State Journa... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo... |
| Date: | 04 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Frances Larson putting the final touches on a formal dress modeled by her daughter Laurie, age 14. Frances, labeled a "modiste" or one who makes fashionabl... |
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