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Fashionable Family outside Home

Date: 1870
Description: Extended family of fourteen posed in their best clothes outside a home. Older woman seated in rocking chair, with men, women, girls, boy and baby.
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1929
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a stylish woman dressed in a fur-trimmed coat and boots, and red hat, carrying a large striped round box with holly on the h...
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To You

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with a stylish woman taking a letter from her Scottie dog's mouth. She is wearing a red dress with a white bow and cuffs, and black high heels...
Postcard

Ethelinda Johnston with her sister, niece, and friend

Date: 1913
Description: From left to right are Emma (Thorsen) Purchas (1862-1944), Ida Fisk, Ethelinda (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Dorothy Purchas ...
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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...
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Group of Women in Front of a Fence

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Description: Four women posing standing together near water. Behind them is a fence angled steeply on a bank covered with foliage.
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President's Dinner at Gayoso Hotel Menu

Date: 10 14 1887
Description: One-page menu for the visit of President Grover Cleveland to Memphis, with a woman with an upswept hairstyle and a choker, wearing a low-necked Delftware-p...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 67

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Description: On the map it shows the turkey buzzards circling overhead
to tell us who we are and what the odds.
Don't count;
a promise is no more than just a s...
Photograph

Jessie

Date: 1905
Description: Jessie Underwood, daughter of E.W. Underwood, posing on the wooden front steps of the family home. She is wearing a hat and a fancy dress with ruffled bodi...
Historical Object

Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children

Date: 08 1901
Description: A photograph of Louise Mears Fargo and her children is mounted on an album page decorated with a hand-painted wild rose. In the photograph, Louise, wearing...
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Downer College Graduation

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor group portrait of women graduating from Downer College standing in front of a vine covered wall. The woman are wearing long white dresses with high...
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Christmas Windows

Date: 12 18 1953
Description: Woldenberg's Christmas window at 26-28 East Mifflin Street, featuring a winter scene with female mannequins wearing the latest fashion in coats, hats, glov...
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What to Wear on UW Campus

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Janice Clark, a freshman at the University of Wisconsin and a graduate of East high school in Madison, is shown wearing a straight stone green and gray pla...

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