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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Amund and Siri Rustebakke and Women with Spinning Wheels

Date: 1873
Description: Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w...
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Sewing Class at School for Indian Children

Date: 1895
Description: Sewing room at Lac du Flambeau U.S. Government School for Indian children. Female students posed at their sewing machines and work tables.
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Norwegian Community Picnic

Date: 1873
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ...
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American Farm Yard In Winter

Date: 1866
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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Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
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Mary Ellen Nevin and her Sister

Date: 1897
Description: Interior of the kitchen at 12 North Broom Street, the residence of James and Mary Ellen Nevin, showing Mrs. Nevin and her sister cooking. James Nevin was ...
Photograph

Sewing Class

Date: 1898
Description: From a portfolio of collotype prints issued in 1900, a sewing class at Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd J...
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Margery Bish Hanging Clothes on Clothesline

Date: 1890
Description: Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right.
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Family at Dining Table

Date: 1890
Description: Family gathered at the dining table.
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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t...
Historical Object

Pastoral Needlework Scene

Date: 1800
Description: Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce...
Photograph

Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
Print

The Slide

Date: 1880
Description: Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow.
Print

Weary Woman

Date: 1873
Description: Engraving of a woman sitting in a chair with light from an attic window shining on her face. Next to her is a rumpled bed and a pull-toy overturned on the ...
Print

Washerwomen of Etretat

Date: 1883
Description: Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa...
Photograph

Siri Rustebakke with Women and Spinning Wheels

Date: 1873
Description: Siri Rustebakke, center, sits in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning wheels. Original negative c109. Compare with D31...
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Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: The Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen (1825-1904), his wife Cathinka Doderlein Ottesen, their family and visitors are posing in a yard around a table set for cof...
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Neils Hallanger Family Relaxes in Yard

Date: 1877
Description: The Neils Hallanger family is posed in their yard around a table piled with books. One lady is posed with a parasol and servant women sit on a sofa in the ...
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B.F. Hahn and Family Picnic

Date: 1876
Description: Benjamin F. Hahn, his wife Mary and their servant Sarah Hill sit around a table with an intricately patterned cloth with bowls of apples and grapes. The wo...

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