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Orpheum Theatre Ushers

Date: 09 02 1928
Description: Group portrait of the Orpheum Theatre's staff of ushers.
Photograph

Orpheum Theatre Ushers

Date: 09 09 1928
Description: Group portrait of Orpheum Theatre ushers in uniform.
Photograph

Orpheum Theatre Ushers

Date: 04 10 1927
Description: Group portrait of new Orpheum Theatre ushers. Behind the group is a statue of a boy with a goat on a pedestal near the "Aisle 2" doors to the auditorium.
Photograph

Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
Photograph

Woman with Four Children

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Description: Woman sitting with three girls and one boy in a room, probably a farm family.
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified family. A man and a woman are posing sitting, and the woman is holding an infant in her lap. Behind them a man and woman...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. The woman is posing sitting in the center front, flanked by a boy and a girl posi...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of unidentified family. Two women are posing sitting, with the younger woman on the left holding an in...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Man with Two Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified man posing sitting on the left, an unidentified woman posing sitting in the c...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of European American Group

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two women wearing flowered hats and holding umbrellas poing sitting in front. Behind them are...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Group of European American Women

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two women posing sitting. The woman on the right is holding an infant. Behind them are two girls po...
Photograph

Group Portrait of Four European American Men

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Description: Two men are posing sitting in front of two men posing standing. All the men are wearing hats. In the background is a painted backdrop.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Unidentified European American Group

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman posing standing on the left holding an infant who is sitting on the back of a cloth-c...
Photograph

On the Porch at Snug Harbor

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people posed on a large porch at Snug Harbor, including: Helen Sturges holding a tennis racket, Clara Sturges, unidentified person (possibly a vis...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children

Date: 1901
Description: Five photographs are mounted on an album page which is decorated with a painting of a honeysuckle sprig. In the photograph at top left, Frank, age three, S...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
Photograph

Hurrah for the Red, White, and Blue

Date: 1904
Description: A group of children are standing on a carpet over the front steps of the house. Two boys are waving flags. A large flag is hanging from the second story. T...
Photograph

Milwaukeeans as Characters from Faust

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von...

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