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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. |
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| Description: | Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner. |
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| Description: | Interior portrait; Bennett family popcorn party. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A family poses at the dining room table after dinner in Luther Valley. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sitting in a rocking chair while crocheting. Sitting across from her is a woman identified as Llora, who is reading. There is a replica of a cat p... |
| Date: | 02 03 1948 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Mrs. Charles Dernbach, Almond; Mrs. Walter Kuhrt, Almond; and Mrs. W.M. Erdenberger, Prairie du Chien, at a tea at the executive reside... |
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| Description: | Woman in a dress and bonnet seated on a bench at a window with a book (The Bible?) open in front of her. There is a spinning wheel in the corner behind the... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb... |
| Date: | 01 01 1900 |
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| Description: | A group of family members sitting at a table laden with food for a New Year's dinner. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | E.W. and Mary Brandel relax together in their home in front of a brick fireplace. They are both wearing eyeglasses; he is reading a newspaper and she is kn... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sits in a chair sewing at a table while her daughter, Everetta, lies on a daybed. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Everetta Bass stands in a room near chairs in front of a treadle sewing machine. A doll buggy is also visible. A tapestry or blanket hangs on the wall on t... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Ada Bass sits in a chair with her hair down, looking at a note, or possibly a photograph. An unidentified woman observes from the next room; decorative cor... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne formally dressed in the dining room of their home, Ten Chimneys. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be... |
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| Description: | Four well-dressed people relax in a parlor. They are reading, sewing and playing the piano. |
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