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| Date: | 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Christmas tree in the home of Edward Petersen decorated with a wide assortment of ornaments and tinsel garland. It is standing on a low table in front of a... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Edward Petersen poses, seated in a chair, and his wife stands next to him on the left. They appear to be reading papers which Edward is holding. Behind the... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Ernst Schmidt shaving using a straight razor in front of a small mirror. The mirror hangs on the wall next to a window. His shaving brush rests on a drop f... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Fritzie, the pet Dachshund of the Schmidt family, poses standing on a library table in the family home in Chicago. There is a framed picture of a hunting d... |
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| Description: | An interior view of a sumptuous Victorian parlor, with a Steinway piano, chandelier and ferns at the William Vilas house, 12 E. Gilman Street. A curtained ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Dr. Otto L. Schmidt hangs in the front hall of Black Point. A handwritten caption which accompanies the photograph states: "Portrait above — ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A grandfather clock stands to the left of the stairway in the front hall of Black Point. There is a paneled door in the background and a settee on the righ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two tall bookcases stand against the far wall in the living room at Black Point. A portrait of Conrad Seipp hangs on that wall. A large bouquet in a tall v... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | An oval portrait of Emma Seipp Schmidt hangs above a cabinet in the music room at Black Point. A modern style settee stands in the large window bay. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A view of a corner of the living room at Black Point provides a glimpse into the music room, at left, and the front hall, right. In the living room is a bo... |
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| Description: | View of a room in the house at 424 N. Pinckney Street. Against one wall is a plush, lounging couch, a portrait on an easel, and flocked wallpaper. There is... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Farnsworth Mears, seated in front of a folding screen, holding her grandson Frank Barber Fargo, age six months, on her lap. Stuart Fargo, age thr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A wicker rocker and bentwood side chair flank the bathtub in a bathroom of the Frank Brown Fargo house. There is a hot water heater above the tub in the co... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A highboy dresser, left, and its lowboy counterpart flank the large bay window in Louise Mears Fargo's bedroom. There is an electic wall sconce on either s... |
| Date: | 12 1905 |
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| Description: | A kitten enjoying the sunlight while sitting on a piece of fabric on a table near a window. There is a pincushion on the table, a lace curtain in the windo... |
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| Description: | Arthur Boseler House, Keck and Keck Project #507. Project date 1954. This photograph is taken in the wood paneled living room. The brick fireplace is to th... |
| Date: | 11 25 1988 |
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| Description: | Two adult women and two girls are sitting on sofas and smiling. On a shelf on a mirrored cabinet behind the sofas are several framed photographs of girls. ... |
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| Description: | Vargueno on display in a museum vitrine. The label card reads: "Vargueno/Spanish-Moorish/XVII Century "Purchased by General Lucius Fairchild in Madrid... |
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| Description: | Actor Louis Hayward and director James Whale during the production of the 1939 film "The Man in the Iron Mask." Both men are sitting at a table on set, wit... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Frederick Brumder (1943-2012), in white sweater, is sitting at a table with relatives in Breuschwickersheim, Alsace, France. The other people are, from lef... |
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