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| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Alma(?), Wis. Studio portrait of group of women seamstresses and two young children. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Dining room at the Wisconsin Industrial School for Boys. |
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| Description: | A group of Maine commercial fishermen having lunch on a dock. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Several looms in the instructional weaving facility at the State School for the Blind. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Dining hall at the State Public School, with numerous tables and place settings. |
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| Description: | Tents, people in costume, and food tables at a carnival on the grounds of Taliesin. Taliesin was the Wisconsin residence of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Tali... |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting on stools milking cows in a barnyard within a log fence enclosure. Milking was usually done outside during the 19th century so in this ... |
| Date: | 08 28 1934 |
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| Description: | Louis Schmidt sharing his hamburger with Ruth Eleanor Hughes on children's day at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Man pumping water from a well with a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
| Date: | 05 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes with a washing machine powered by a a McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 HP engine. |
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| Description: | View across bare ground towards a large extended family of 26 people who are sitting and standing along a fence in the front yard of a wood frame house; La... |
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| Description: | The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Ladies sit on the front porch of a long two-story house. One woman is next to a baby carriage. On the porch's roof is a man with a ladder painting the hous... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table with dishes on top. To the right is a man sitting and holding a violin, and to his right a boy is holding a gun. The ho... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is seated around a table while a woman pours the coffee. Behind them, two people stand in the doorway of a frame house. A man stands on the roof o... |
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