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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Waiting for the Royal Family

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Men in white fur suits are standing in front of ice palace with horses.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Royal Family Leaving Palace

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Royal family leaving ice palace in their equipage. Crowds are milling about.
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Mail and Passenger Stage

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Description: View of a horse-drawn sleigh used as a mail and passenger stage between Tanana and Fairbanks. Writing on sleigh reads: "Tanana-Fairbanks Stage" Caption rea...
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Man and Woman Looking at Car Engine

Date: 1920
Description: A man and woman are looking under the hood of a car in front of a business whose sign states, "The car that is seen and not heard. The car you will eventua...
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Daisy Bates in a Welcoming Party

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Description: Daisy Bates as part of a welcoming party at an airport. From left to right are: Edward L. Cooper, executive secretary of the Boston NAACP, Kivie Kaplan, Na...
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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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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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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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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,...
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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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Delivery for Stemp Typewriter Company

Date: 1933
Description: View from across State Street of men and women standing in front of the Stemp Typewriter Company as deliveries are stacked on the sidewalk. Stanley P. Stem...
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The Market

Date: 1918
Description: People wearing thick coats and hats, some made of fur, are standing at an outside market, possibly in Arkhangelsk, Russia. In the background is a long buil...
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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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Men, Women and Children at Market

Date: 1918
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men, women and children standing outdoors in the snow, possibly to attend the market in Archangel [Arkhangelsk], Russi...
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Group of Men and Women

Date: 1908
Description: Group of well-dressed men and women wearing hats posing outdoors standing in a line, probably on a street in Milwaukee. Possibly a group of convention dele...
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Couple in a Horse-Drawn "Cutter"

Date: 1906
Description: Winter scene with a man and woman driving in a horse-drawn "cutter" in the snow. They have a fur blanket over their laps. Behind them is a building, perhap...
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Café Martin Supper Menu

Date: 11 19 1906
Description: One-page supper menu from Café Martin, with a watercolor illustration by Louis Renault of a man and a woman walking down the sidewalk arm-in-arm, a driver...
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Farmer's Course

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Description: Four men pose on and around a crude wooden platform set up in front of the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy. There is a barrel o...
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Crowd at Farmer's Course

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of crowd standing closely around a platform on which a man wearing an apron stands next to a cow. A barrel and wooden pail are also ...
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Jackson County Home

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Description: View across snowy ground towards a man walking in front of a three-story brick building surrounded by snow. Identified as the Jackson County Home located j...

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