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Tannisse and David Taylor having a Tea Party

Date: 1914
Description: Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1897
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

Kessenich's Infant Department

Date: 03 28 1927
Description: Kessenich's infant department. In the foreground is a table with a doll and stuffed toys on it, surrounded by three rocking chairs. Along the wall in the b...
Postcard

Saint Nicholas with Christmas Wheelbarrow

Date: 1907
Description: Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe...
Photograph

Playing with Wagons

Date: 
Description: Esther Bigalk Clark, Edgar Krueger (on tricycle), Jennie Krueger, and Josie Bigalk Wendorf playing with wagons, dolls and a toy wheelbarrow outdoors.
Photograph

Thompson House

Date: 1873
Description: The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl ...
Photograph

Girls in Nightgowns

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Description: Group of little girls posed wearing nightgowns. Each holds an identically dressed doll and a candle.
Photograph

Group Posed around Frame House

Date: 1873
Description: A family is posed in front of a wood frame house. A boy or girl with a doll is sitting with a dog on the porch roof. A man holding an accordion is sitting ...
Photograph

Family Grouped around Table by House

Date: 1879
Description: A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin...
Photograph

Family Posed near Frame House

Date: 1874
Description: A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the...
Photograph

Family and Dog in Front of House

Date: 1898
Description: A man, woman, mother-in-law, and three children posing in the yard in front of a clapboard frame house. The young girl in the middle is holding a doll, and...
Print

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard with a young woman driving an open automobile with Santa Claus in the back, who is holding gifts in his left hand. He is wearing a red sui...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1907
Description: Holiday postcard depicting the traditional St. Nicholas figure garbed in a long purple fur-trimmed robe, red fur-trimmed hat and boots. He is pushing a whe...
Print

Santa and Children on a Coffee Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ...
Photograph

Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ...
Photograph

Everetta and Cary Bass

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, helping her brother Cary put on a silk top hat. She is holding a doll and they are standing outside near a fire...
Photograph

Three Children with Tricycle

Date: 
Description: Studio portrait of three children posing in front of a painted backdrop. Two children are standing, and one holds an umbrella and the other a doll. The oth...
Photograph

Man and Girl on Porch Swing

Date: 1921
Description: A older man and a young girl holding a doll are seated together on a porch swing for an outdoor portrait.
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club with Dolls

Date: 12 10 1947
Description: Madison Woman's Club members presenting 50 dolls to Orthopedic Hospital (Children's Hospital, a part of Wisconsin General Hospital). L to R: Mary E. Seybol...

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