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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
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Children in Bed

Date: 1890
Description: Bedroom scene with two boys in a bed with ornate headboard.
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Early Crystal Radio Set

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Description: A woman tunes an early crystal radio set.
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Reading the Story of the Nativity

Date: 1953
Description: Two young children relax in their pajamas while reading "A Child's Story of the Nativity."
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Spring Cleaning

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Description: A woman dust mops the floor while listening to a radiophone that is perched on the window sill.
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Nellie Kedzie Jones

Date: 1920
Description: Audience surrounding Nellie Kedzie Jones on the Agricultural Extension Home Economics circuit in Northern Wisconsin.
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Villa Louis

Date: 1920
Description: Interior view of the front hallway of Villa Louis.
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Family Portrait

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Description: A family portrait on the front porch of their house. There are three females and three males.
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A Musical Performance

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Description: A woman with a ukulele in a household setting.
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1010 Walker Court, Living Room

Date: 1918
Description: Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born Nov. 1, 1911, sleeping on the sofa in the living room of his parents, the Richard & Georgia Lloyd Jones, home 1010 Walker Court (n...
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Bis and Doll

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lloyd Jones, known as Bis or Bisser, born Oct. 9, 1913, daughter of Richard & Georgia Lloyd Jones, sitting with her doll in an upholstered chair.
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Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and his Wife Susan

Date: 1911
Description: Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Susan Lloyd Jones and their collie, Roger, probably on the porch of a cottage. Susan died Oct 26, 1911 and Jenkin died Sept 12...
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Jenk and Mother

Date: 1912
Description: Georgia Lloyd Jones holds her son Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born Nov. 1911, on a hobby horse.
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Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in Amsterdam

Date: 1946
Description: Left to right: friend Sophie, Josef and Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman) in their home in Amsterdam. The tablecloth was made by Mrs. Bader and retu...
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Martin House, 327 Milton Ave. Janesville

Date: 1919
Description: French Second Empire style, C. Loftus Martin House, 327 Milton Ave., built ca. 1868. Three children stand in yard. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesvil...
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Jethro Coffin Home Keeping Room

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Description: View of the keeping room in the Jethro Coffin home. Jethro Coffin was a blacksmith and the grandson of one of the island's first white settlers, Tristam Co...
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Stout Institute Home Economics Building

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Description: Elevated view of the five-story Home Economics Building at the Stout Institute (now University of Wisconsin-Stout). Automobiles park alongside the streets ...
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Greetings

Date: 1941
Description: Holiday card with man sitting in an easy chair in front of a fireplace. He is smoking a pipe and reading a book. There is a model sailing ship on the mantl...
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Bacon Ironing Board Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Bacon Ironing Board Company of Antigo, Wisconsin, with an illustration of a woman wearing a long dress with billowy sleeves and a lace-trim...
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Young Housewife

Date: 1928
Description: Young housewife wearing apron, leaning forward and looking down. Photograph for the extension project of the International Harvester Co. of Chicago.

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