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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
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Ernest Thierstein in his Swiss Chalet Home

Date: 03 01 1949
Description: Ernest Thierstein relaxing in his Swiss-style chalet home in New Glarus. He came from the village of Boviel in the Emmental valley in the canton of Bern, S...
Postcard

Forest Middleton and Friend

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic postcard of Forest Middleton, left, sitting cross-legged on a chair holding a pipe and glancing at a friend, possibly Eddie Quick. There is a ...
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Forest Middleton at Desk

Date: 1910
Description: Forest Middleton, wearing a visor and moccassins, sits at a roll top desk. He holds an open book and is smoking a pipe. There are two oil lamps on the desk...
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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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Dressed to the Nines

Date: 1930
Description: Irene Steinkopf, motion picture editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, dressed in a floor-length gown for an evening on the town.
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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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S.M. Babcock

Date: 1888
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of group of nine men, identified on the reverse as associates of the Geneva, New York Experiment Station. St...
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Louis Hayward and James Whale

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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...

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