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Coffin House (?) Parlor

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Description: Interior view of a parlor. A chandelier is hanging from the ceiling, and multiple photographs and portraits are displayed on the walls. There is a piano al...
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Interior View of the Dankoler Sitting Room

Date: 1898
Description: Interior view of the Dankoler's sitting room with cushioned chairs and books stacked on a side table. A deocorative hand fan rests on one of the chairs. Tw...
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Interior View of Dankoler Sitting Room

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Description: An interior view of the Dankoler's sitting room with books stacked under and on top of a carved wood cabinet and on top of a table. A cushioned chair sits ...
Postcard

Group Portrait

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton sitting on a chair behind an unidentified man, woman, and boy. A heavy drape with tassels, top left, frames the s...
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Family at Home

Date: 1905
Description: A carefully posed scene of a man, woman, and girl at home. The girl sits with a cat on her lap. The man, in a wicker rocker, reads the "Editorial Section" ...
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Grandmother and Granddaughter

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Description: Mrs. Pierce sits in a wicker armchair facing the camera while her granddaughter Margery Bish sits facing her on a stool in front of a piano. Behind them is...
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Family Piano Recital

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Description: Mary Pierce Bish plays an upright piano while her daughter Margaret Bish, standing to her left, and her mother Mrs. Pierce, seated to her right, look on.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Petersen

Date: 1900
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...
Photograph

Music Room at Black Point

Date: 1942
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.
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Underwood Residence

Date: 1905
Description: An interior available light photograph, through a doorway, of the parlor in the home of E.W. Underwood. An oil lamp is sitting on a table flanked by two ch...
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Parlor

Date: 1924
Description: A parlor or sitting room, with a view into a small room beyond a doorway, probably in the tower of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner o...

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