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Dressing up the Dog

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Description: A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background.
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Women Playing a Reed Organ

Date: 1900
Description: A woman sits at a reed organ while another looks on.
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Woman Reading Letter

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Description: Woman reading a letter by a table.
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Woman Reading Newspaper

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Description: Elderly woman sitting in a Morris chair reading a newspaper.
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Woman Sitting on Settee

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Description: Woman sitting on a settee in front of a wall displaying photographs, possibly Fannie Post.
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Woman Sitting at Piano

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Description: Woman sitting at a piano in a parlor.
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Woman Sitting near Stove

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Description: Elderly woman sitting in the corner of a room with a wood-burning "Sylvan Sunshine" stove and world globe.
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Group of People near Piano

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Description: Four women posing in chairs while a man sits on the floor holding a child, all in front of a piano.
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Group Posed near Organ

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Description: Three women and one man posed next to an organ. One woman sitting on the man's lap.
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Group Posed near Organ

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Description: Three women and one man posed next to an organ.
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two women, two children, and a man sitting in a parlor showing a portrait of a man and a doorway hanging with cords.
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two women, a man, and child sitting in a parlor with a doorway hanging with decorative cords.
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Four women, one elderly, and two children, probably Julia Spaulding and family. Spaulding twins, Julia, elderly woman, Sadie and children, Dudley and Margu...
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Two Children Posing in Parlor

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Description: Two children posing in a parlor, probably Dudley and Marguerite Osborn inside the Spaulding House.
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Group at Boarding House

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Description: Six women and a man gathered at a parlor table at a boarding house. The man is probably Amos Elliott, and the women around the table are teachers studying ...
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two men and two women reading in a parlor, possibly J.R. Ogden and wife, and Grace Ogden and Carl (?).
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Three People Reading

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Description: Two women and an elderly man reading in a room.
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two women and two men, both young and elderly, reading and conversing in a parlor, probably Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Ogden, and their son and daughter, Carl and G...
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Group of People Reading

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Description: Three men, woman, and boy posed reading in a room.
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Woman Posing near Piano

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Description: Woman posing next to a piano, probably Mrs. Merlin Hull, formerly Jessie Matchette.

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