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Rock of Gibraltar in the Richmond Memorial Park

Date: 1902
Description: Two women and a man pose atop Gibraltar Rock in Richmond Memorial Park, which was dedicated by Jens Jensen and the Wisconsin Friends in 1927 in order to co...
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Virginia Mueller

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Description: Virginia Mueller stands on a dune with her hands on her hips. In the far background is a valley with trees and fields.
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Woman Reclining Outdoors

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Description: A woman reclines on her side in the grass in front of a shrub. She is resting her head on her hand and is wearing a skirt and a blouse. In the background i...
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Two Girls and Their Dog

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Description: Two girls and a dog sit in a field where oats have been cut and shocked. The girl on the left is sitting inside one of the oat shocks and smiling at the ca...
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Girl with Dog

Date: 1921
Description: The photographer's daughter Margaret poses with a dachshund on the path in front of the Hotz family cottage on Europe Lake. Two flights of steps on a steep...
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Ordnance Men

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,...
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Violet Jacobson

Date: 1932
Description: Violet Jacobson, a student at Mud Branch School, District No. 2, poses on her family's farm with several calves. There is a barn and two other outbuildings...
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Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
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Women in a Sand Pit

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Description: Florance Trask poses standing in a sand pit located near the intersection of Fish Hatchery Road and Park Street. Another woman, Grace, can be seen digging ...
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Woman Posing in a Sand Pit

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Description: A woman, Grace, smiles as she poses while standing in a sand pit near the intersection of Fish Hatchery Road and Park Street. A note on the back of the pho...
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Woman Seated on Stone Wall

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Description: A young woman (possibly one of the O'Dea sisters) sits on the stone wall surrounding the edge of a pond. She is wearing a skirt, blouse, sweater, stockings...
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Silver Wedding of Bradford and Alice Gillett

Date: 1905
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the 25th wedding anniversary of Bradford and Alice Gillett — Sherwin Gillett's uncle and aunt, seated in the center. The other gu...
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Elderly Woman in Her Yard

Date: 1905
Description: Elderly woman posed standing in the yard of a frame residence.
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Girls Feeding Geese

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Description: Photographic postcard of three girls feeding corn to a flock of geese. Two girls are standing, and one girl is sitting on the left. All three girls have bo...
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Mrs. Abe Bailey and Daughter

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two European American women standing near a large flowering bush on the right. On the left is a wooden building, and in the background ...
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Ernst Schmidt

Date: 07 03 1916
Description: Ernst Conrad Schmidt (1893-1977) skips the "Water Witch" off the shore of Geneva Lake near Black Point Estate. There is a larger boat in the background nea...
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Tractor Drawn Harvester Thresher

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of two men on a tractor drawn harvester thresher in a field. Low hills are in the far distance.
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Cherry Blossom Festival

Date: 1921
Description: Leonore Middleton, in hat, facing camera, posing with two unidentified women, left, near two small market stalls under blooming cherry trees along a roadwa...
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On the Trail

Date: 09 1934
Description: A male guide on the left is using a walking stick to point out a feature in the rocks atop a bluff at Devil's Lake State Park, as a group of men on the rig...
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Interstate Park

Date: 10 1937
Description: A woman identified as Beth Doane is sitting on a rock formation high above the St. Croix River. She is looking into one of several potholes in the area. Th...

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