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Ambassador Lord and Lady Halifax

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Ambassador Lord (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood) and Lady Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, at the train station. Left to right: Lady Halifa...
Photograph

Three Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1931
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk women. One of the women is posing standing in the center behind the other two woman posing sit...
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Family Members at Alpha Chi Omega Luncheon

Date: 05 17 1952
Description: Family members of the Alpha Chi Omaga sorority at the state luncheon at the Memorial Union. Chosen as the guest of honor is Mrs. M.O. (Iola) Withey (seated...
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...
Photograph

Skiers

Date: 01 1928
Description: Winter scene with Ferdinand Hotz, holding a cigarette, posing on skis. His wife, Clothilde, stands on the left with a long walking stick; daughter Helen (L...
Photograph

Krueger Family

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Description: View of the Krueger family in front of the old house, taken at the time of Grandfather Goetsch's funeral.
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Goetsch and Krueger Families

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Description: Portrait of the Goetsch and Krueger families, taken at the time of Grandfather Goetsch's funeral.
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Bill Maddox and Family

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a European American family in winter costume and a baby carriage sleigh. The child is sitting in a ...
Photograph

Oakes Family

Date: 1910
Description: Bundled up in winter clothes, the Oakes Family poses outside the family home on the front walk. Snow covers the ground. The group includes (left to right):...
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Sitting on a Split-Rail Fence

Date: 1904
Description: Jennie and Edgar Kruger sitting on a split-rail fence on Loock's hill with their mother, Florentina Kruger, standing beside them.
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Standing Outdoors During Winter

Date: 1906
Description: Emil Kuney's sister, Emil Kuney, Sarah Krueger, and Henry Bigalk standing outdoors in front of a fence during winter.
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William and Alma at Portofino

Date: 02 22 1930
Description: William Conrad Seipp, Jr., left, and his daughter Melita, far right, pose with Alma Schmidt Petersen and her son Conrad at an overlook above Portofino Bay....
Photograph

Assaying Gold in Alaska

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. A.N. Kittelsen (left) seated at the table, his brother Bernhardt Kittelsen (right) seated on a fur covered bed, both of Stoughton, Wis. and Norman Torr...
Photograph

Petersen Brothers

Date: 1932
Description: Conrad Petersen, far left, tugs on his younger brother William's ear, while posing with a more serious Edward against a stone wall in Eisenach, Germany. Wi...
Photograph

Family Posing in Sleigh

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Description: A man, woman, and child posing while seated in a horse-drawn sleigh on a snowy road. Behind them are buildings, a fence, and what may be ice harvesting equ...
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Margaret Boyum and Her Son

Date: 1940
Description: Portrait of Margaret Boyum, wearing a fur coat, standing on a porch holding the handle of a Taylor Tot stroller that her son, Steve Boyum, is sitting in.
Historical Object

Album Page with Valentine

Date: 1910
Description: An album page featuring a die cut, chromolithograph Valentine's Day card in the shape of an arrow. The greeting "To My Sweetheart" is printed on the card, ...
Photograph

Inauguration Day with Mara Lee and Mrs. Spencer Yates

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Governor Gaylord Nelson's niece, Maya Lee (of Crestwood), is shown resting her feet as the Governor's sister, Mrs. Spencer Yates (of Roseburg, Oregon), is ...
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Margaret and Children

Date: 1921
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder posing outside the family house at 2030 East Lafayette Place with her two older children, Barbara, left, and Herbe...
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Skating at the Winter Club

Date: 01 05 1912
Description: The Holt children are skating in a line at an ice rink. The girls are holding fur hand warmers. There is a toboggan slide in the background. Names from lef...

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