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| Description: | Laurie and Muriel Peterson, children of the photographer, use a high chair to talk on the phone. |
| Date: | 05 31 1964 |
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| Description: | A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "All To Myself" brochure for the NBC Matinee Theater with a woman sitting front of the television peeling potatoes with her shoes off. There is an outline ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | "Curiosities in Springdale, Wisconsin." A view of Nellie Springen, perhaps with her family, at a rocky outcropping enjoying coffee. |
| Date: | 11 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Some of the young people who attended the first of a series of informal parties for teenagers living in Maple Bluff. The party was at the Lakewood school. ... |
| 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: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Cover design on the magazine "Wisconsin Engineer". The image illustrates the story "The Population Explosion" by depicting a mass of starving people trying... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members laughing while having tea. Two men are leaning against a large boulder inside a cave. There are cups at their fe... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian members of the National Liberation Front sitting at the entrance of a cave having tea. Rifles are leaning against the rocks behind them. The men a... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The family hunters and their deer in front of a house. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe... |
| Date: | 08 19 1961 |
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| Description: | John Lynch (10) of Sun Prairie is shown biting into an ear of corn at the annual corn festival. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Ridgeway Lumber Store before the opening on May 15, 1948. Owned by Elmer and Willard Droster, and G. Wichman. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Ridgeway Lumber Store before the opening on May 15, 1948. Owned by Elmer and Willard Droster, and G. Wichman. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An American Indian woman is bending over the carcass of a young deer on the ground in a wooded area. A man, far right, is looking at the camera while holdi... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Parade float on which ten women are standing, some posing with knitting needles or behind a sewing machine. Two men and one woman are standing on the groun... |
| Date: | 05 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres... |
| Date: | 09 02 1913 |
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| Description: | Sitting in galvanized wash tubs with their legs in the water, three girls are ready for the race on Archibald Lake. Jeannette Holt is in the middle, flanke... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | With her face partially shaded by a hat, Jeannette Holt is holding a cast iron frying pan sideways to shade the camera as a young man, sitting at the base ... |
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