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Woman Using Spinning Wheel

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Description: Elderly woman using a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool.
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Frank Lloyd Wright

Date: 1924
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright sits by a sunlit window in his living room at Taliesin, with papers spread before him on a table.
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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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Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and his Wife Susan

Date: 1911
Description: Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones and his wife Susan Lloyd Jones, probably on the porch of their cottage. Susan died Oct 26, 1911 and Jenkin died Sept 12, 1918.
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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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Bass Family Portrait

Date: 1905
Description: Lorinda Hill Bass sits in the center, with daughters Martha Bass Haskin, left, and Rhoda Bass Shephard beside her. Her sons, Edward, left, and Frank, right...
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Men in Hunting Cabin

Date: 1900
Description: Two men posed with guns in a hunting cabin. The room in sparsely furnished with a table, chairs, and a bed.
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Dick on Rocking Horse

Date: 1913
Description: Richard Lloyd Jones "Dick" rides a rocking horse.
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Man Reading in Living Room

Date: 1912
Description: Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne.
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Virginia Ross in Kitchen

Date: 1950
Description: Virginia Ross poses at a table in front of a large stove in the kitchen. Caption reads: "Kitchen at Ross's Tel Lake Lodge, Hayward, Wis."
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Sitting Room

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Description: Interior view of sitting room with a tall ceiling. The room is decorated in art deco style with a light fixture, upholstered chairs, patterned carpet, patt...
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Basket Making

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Description: View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th...
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Spinning Wool

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Description: View of woman sitting with spinning wheel, bulk wool and a yarn winder by a stone wall with a cooking fireplace in it. Plants grow on the ground nearby, th...
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Theodore (Ted) Pierce with a Book

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Description: Ted Pierce dressed in formal attire, including bow tie and sitting in front of a bookcase with a book on his lap.
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Convent of Our Lady of the Cenacle

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Description: iew of a woman sitting with a nun in front of a fireplace in the Maude Adams guest house at Our Lady of the Cenacle convent. The room has low wooden ceilin...
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Large Radio

Date: 1927
Description: Newspaperman Alvin Steinkopf leaning on a large radio in his Milwaukee apartment. Steinkopf is wearing a bow tie and holding a cigar in his hand.
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Funny Papers and Alvin Steinkopf

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Description: Still wearing his pajamas, "Milwaukee Sentinel" editor Alvin Steinkopf reads the newspaper. The popular comic strip, "Gasoline Alley," can be seen on the ...
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Kenosha Crib Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Kenosha Crib Company of Kenosha, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of the Latest in Children's Cribs". Features an outdoor scene of a child stand...
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Hotz Family Christmas

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of members of the family of Ferdinand Hotz posed in front of the Christmas tree in the Hotz home. They are, standing in the back, left to ri...
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Leland Kopps

Date: 1932
Description: Leland Kopps, a student at Strawberry School, sits in a chair near a Victrola-style cabinet phonograph in his farm home. There is a large potted plant in f...

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