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Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1891
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par...
Photograph

Family by Stone Gate

Date: 1879
Description: A well-dressed family of four is posed in front of a stone fence with a picket gate. Behind them is a Greek Revival frame house with shuttered windows.
Photograph

Woman Posing with Potted Plant

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman in a long dress posing with a crown of thorns plant in the front yard of house. The plant is in a pot which is sitting on a pie...
Photograph

Couple Related to Gauer

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Description: Couple posing outside. Harold Gauer's brother Norman with his "exotic oriental" dance wife, Wong Lee.
Photograph

Alice Bedard on Bridge

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Description: Alice Bedard at the Lake Park Bridge on Milwaukee's East side.
Photograph

Syl at Soldiers' Home

Date: 07 23 1898
Description: Syl stands in front of a pavilion with a well or water pump in a park. A group of adults dressed fashionably stand in the pavilion while drinking water fro...
Photograph

Ma Posing at Esou's

Date: 1989
Description: "Ma" posing near plants at Esou's. She is wearing a long dress and a fancy hat with feathers. A gravel road and other vegetation are in the background.
Photograph

Gordon Boardman

Date: 1970
Description: Candid portrait of Gordon Boardman, who is wearing a white shirt and a kerchief around his neck. There is a double exposure ghost image of him at the botto...
Photograph

Webb TB Album: M.T.S. Nurses' Home

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of friends or o...
Photograph

Woman with French Bulldog

Date: 1946
Description: A woman is standing on the front steps of a house with a french bulldog. The woman is dressed up in a fur coat, a fancy hat and high heels.
Photograph

Two Women in front of Sign

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Description: Two women pose in front of a sign advertising lots for sale. They are both dressed fashionably and their arms are stretched out with their fingers touching...
Photograph

Young Sigrid Schultz

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Description: Young Sigrid Schultz with her mother in Berlin, at what appears to be an open-air restaurant. They are both fashionably dressed in fine hats and dresses.
Photograph

Noel Gillespie and His Parents

Date: 1905
Description: Noel Alexander Gillespie is shown as a child, with his parents Andre and Emily Rieder, in England.
Photograph

Models

Date: 08 1979
Description: Models at the Sentinal Photo Show.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Catalog Cover

Date: 1897
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man fixing a bicycle while a woman and two children look on. The woman's outfit sports "leg o' mutton" (or gig...
Photograph

Man and Woman Sitting Outdoors

Date: 09 09 1940
Description: Teenagers modeling for the Teen Shop at Manchester's. They are sitting outdoors looking at a book. A college building is in the background.
Photograph

Ready for Elks Parade at Oshkosh

Date: 1902
Description: Hand-colored view of a horse and carriage decorated for a parade. Jessie Jack Hooper, wearing a floral hat, holds a decorated parasol in the front seat. A ...
Photograph

Women's Outing

Date: 1882
Description: Four women relax and have fun together, sitting on the grass, wearing hats and long dresses. Two of them hold a cigarette in their hand, the other two have...
Photograph

Kayes Park House

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph of the large hotel at Kayes Park on the south shore of Geneva Lake. There are two girls standing in the foreground, with well-dressed women in ...
Photograph

Catherine Seipp and Her Children

Date: 1887
Description: Group studio portrait in front of a painted background. Catherine Orb Seipp, seated at left, poses with her children. From left: Conrad, Clara, Emma (stand...

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