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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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Dream Drum Dancers

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Description: Five Ho-Chunk performers in front of cloth barriers or tents. A powwow group from the 1908 Homecoming. The five are full brothers according to the 1881 tri...
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Debris after a Tornado

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Description: Group of men and women looking at the debris of a building, possibly a house, destroyed by a tornado. Wreckage of an automobile on the left.
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Group Posing in front of House

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Description: Four women, a man, and two girls posing in front of a two-story and one-story house.
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Group Posed Outdoors

Date: 1910
Description: Large group posing in front of a frame house.
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Man and Woman in Wagon

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Description: Man and woman in a horse and wagon in front of a building with two women seated on the stoop, probably the Spaulding home, the present location of the Dr. ...
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Cornfields

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Description: Cornfield and views of houses from a hill.
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Man and Woman on Porch of House

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Description: Man, woman, and cat on the porch of a frame home, with board sidewalk in foreground. This is probably Mr. and Mrs. Bartell Giroux. He was a tinsmith.
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Two-Story Frame House

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Description: Two-story frame house in town with two porches, and a small girl standing on a porch.
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Sleds and Sleighs

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Description: Winter scene with sleds and sleighs on a snow-covered street in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. The man in center sleigh is probably Moses Paquette.
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Four People Sitting on Cellar Door

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Description: Three women, a man, and a dog sitting on top of a cellar door.
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People near a House

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Description: Seated man, probably William O'Brien, a woman with umbrella, Maggie Beatty O'Brien, and William Miles O'Brien, posing in front of a house. Two men are in t...
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Family Posed in front of House

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Description: Man and woman, with umbrella, posing with a girl and baby in a wicker baby carriage in front of a frame house, number 419.
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Group of People in front of House

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Description: Group of people in front of a frame house. Four women and two men, one holding a bicycle.
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Group of People in front of House

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Description: Group in front of a frame house. Six women, and two men. The two men and one woman are seated.
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Group of People Posed in front of House

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Description: Group of three men, woman, and a boy posed in front of house on hill.
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Group of People Posed in front of House

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Description: Group of three men, woman, and a boy posed in front of house on hill.
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Group of People Posed in front of House

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Description: Group of people posed in front of a frame house. Two women, one seated, and a child in a buggy on the left side; two men, a seated dog, and a bicycle on th...
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Group of People Posed in front of House

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Description: Large group of men, women, and children posed in front of the doorway of a small frame building, near a wagon.

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