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Hershleder Furriers Style Show

Date: 07 22 1937
Description: Hershleder Furriers, 529 State Street. Style show with model wearing a fur cape. Men, women and children are in the audience.
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Katherine Verikios

Date: 11 21 1931
Description: Katherine Verikios, 10, 1135 E. Mifflin Street, wearing fur-trimmed coat. She won the Madison Label Saving contest and received a new Chevrolet.
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Woman and Child — Nunivak

Date: 1928
Description: Portrait of a Nunivak woman and child.
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A Family Group — Noatak

Date: 1928
Description: Seated portrait of a woman, man, and child.
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Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Date: 04 25 1952
Description: Dr. A.M. Iams (right), Madison pediatrician, uses a stethoscope to examine Julie Conlin (center), so she will be prepared to enter kindergarten. Her mother...
Postcard

New Year Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of a family in a car. It is decorated with flowers, foliage and ribbons. The parents are inside the car, and the son is sitting on the hoo...
Postcard

Greetings

Date: 1908
Description: Holiday postcard with a girl peering through a wreath of holly. Her coat, mittens, hat and boots are light blue. She has a fur muff with holly in it hangin...
Print

Loving Greeting to My Valentine

Date: 1895
Description: Valentine's Day card with three, die cut pieces. The middle piece is a sleigh pulled by one horse. There are three children in the sleigh; one boy is drivi...
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William Irvine and Child in Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1900
Description: Winter scene with William Irvine (1851-1927) seated in his sleigh next to his daughter Ruth (1891-1987) wearing a hat and wrapped in furs, Chippewa Falls, ...
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F. and G. Stanley Families

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Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of some 22 members of the F. and G. Stanley families, associated with the F. and G. Stanley Manufacturing Pla...
Photograph

Outdoor Produce Market

Date: 1921
Description: A man and two boys are standing behind an outdoor counter while selling farm produce to female customers. A horse-drawn wagon is parked behind them.
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A.F. Werner Store Advertisment

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Description: Small girl posed outdoors on a fur rug in front of an advertisement for the A.F. Werner Store. The poster is attached to a sleigh on a snow-covered street,...
Photograph

Flood at Fish Creek

Date: 04 1922
Description: The photographer's wife Clothilde leans on a railing, looking at water rushing through a stone culvert on Fish Creek. Their car is parked on the roadway. A...
Photograph

William Krueger with Twins

Date: 1899
Description: William Krueger sits between the twins, Edgar and Jennie Krueger. There is a fur rug on the floor.
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Krueger Family Four Generation Picture

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Description: Portrait of four generations of Krueger men. William and August are sitting from left to right. Behind them, Alex is standing holding Edgar. There is a fur...
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Group of People Posing in front of House

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Description: Two men, six women, and a young girl are posing standing in the yard in front of a single-story frame house. There is also a man and woman sitting in a bug...
Photograph

Man Standing Near Child in Sled

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene with a man standing in a coat next to a child bundled in a sled on the snow-covered sidewalk in front of the storefront of J.R. McDonald. In t...
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Young Child Wearing Frilly Hat

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a little girl wearing a dress and a frilly hat is posing on a bench. At her feet is a fur rug.
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Religious Procession

Date: 1918
Description: A large group of Russians conducting a religious parade through a town. The men in the group are carrying the iconography.
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Wisconsin Beekeepers Association

Date: 1921
Description: Group portrait of the Wisconsin Beekeepers Association at the Wisconsin Markets Expo.

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