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William McFarland Family Pose in Yard

Date: 1880
Description: The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc...
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Family of Seven near Modest House

Date: 1873
Description: A family of seven is posed around a table in the yard of a very modest house with a latticework porch. The men wear hats and a woman holds a baby. The hous...
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Group Outside of House

Date: 1876
Description: Twenty-eight people and one dog are posed in the yard of a wood frame house. A lap dog is sitting on a chair balanced on top of a fence post. A woman at th...
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Extended Family of Aslak Olsen Lie

Date: 08 29 1876
Description: The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o...
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Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Women and Children

Date: 1897
Description: Women of various ages are surrounded by babies and young children, as well as chairs and cribs. Each woman is holding a baby. Cribs are hanging on chains f...
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Studio Portrait of George Lowe and Family

Date: 1895
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing, and a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is holding a c...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman and Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting wearing a dark dress and several rings, and holding an infant on her lap ...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman and Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and wearing a dark-colored dress, and holding an infant in her lap who is...
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Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men and an Infant

Date: 1911
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk men posing sitting and wearing suits, bow ties, and hats. Andrew John (Big) Blackhawk (WaCon...
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Three Ho-Chunk Women with an Infant

Date: 1915
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop. Lucy Thunderking Lowe Yellowbank (MaHiskaWinKah), sitting on the left, is holding her nephew David Ne...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Girl and Infant

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk girl posing standing on the left wearing a winter coat, scarf, and hat. On the right is a Ho-Chunk infant wearing a white gow...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Infant Girl

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk infant girl posing sitting in a small chair that has been placed on top of another chair. She is in front of a painted backdr...
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League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: As part of a League of a Women Voters house to house canvas to encourage voting, Mrs. Horace (Marion) Wilkie (left), chair of the Westmorland Unit, is show...
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Registration at the Health Center

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Description: Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health.
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Examination of a Baby

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Description: Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center.
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Registering at the Health Center

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Description: Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food.
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Woman and Child

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman in night cap and dressing gown holds an infant in a long white dress. She is seated on a Victorian settee.
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Woman and Infant

Date: 1912
Description: A hand-tinted image of a young woman with a ruffled nightcap tending an infant wrapped in a crocheted blanket lying in a cradle. A candle is burning in a b...
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A Family at Ease

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Description: William Fiebelkorn's family gathered in a living room. William Sr. is in a rocking chair with his hands clasped. His brother August Fiebelkorn is reading a...

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