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Dancing Kehl Twins

Date: 1941
Description: Dancing Kehl twins, Jo Ann and Jo Jean Kehl, born 1936. They wear matching dresses, shoes, and bows in their hair.
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Jane Jennings

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen...
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Portrait of Susie Ammundsen

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Description: A portrait of Susie Ammundsen, the sister of Gjertrud A. Dahl.
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Chapelle with Arm Band

Date: 03 1942
Description: Dickey Chapelle seated by an open window, wearing the correspondent arm band. Taken at time of her first recognition by the War Department as Look's...
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Mrs. Ada Kimberley

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Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Ada Kimberley of Brodhead, Wisconsin.
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Mrs. George Spaulding

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Mrs. Geogre Spaulding of Brodhead, Wisconsin.
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Mrs. Belle Knickerbocker

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Description: Carte-de-visite full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Belle Knickerbocker of Shullsburg, Wisconsin. She is holding a book in her left...
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Ideal Curlers

Date: 1921
Description: Exhibit of Ideal Curlers at the Wisconsin State Fair, with a woman demonstrating how they were to be used for long hair. The advertising promises "no metal...
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Portrait of Old Lady

Date: 11 30 1930
Description: Copy of a portrait of an old woman, taken for Mrs. Dean.
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Portrait of a Woman

Date: 11 30 1930
Description: Copy of an old portrait of a woman, taken for Mrs. Dean.
Postcard

Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
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Night School

Date: 05 1940
Description: Adult students pose in class at a night school, where they took classes in English and citizenship at Neighborhood House.
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Jane Cunningham Croly

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Description: Quarter-length vignetted portrait of Jane Cunningham Croly ("Jennie June"), founder of the first national woman's club, Sorosis.
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Studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

Date: 1896
Description: Waist-up portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the best known leaders of the women's suffrage movement who had strong ties to the North Country and who o...
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Helen Adams Kellogg

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Description: Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Madison resident Helen R. Adams, the second wife of La Fayette Kellogg and the sister of Frances Adams Clark, the wife o...
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Mrs. Edwin Sumner

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders carte-de-visite portrait of Nettie Sumner, the wife of one Madison pharmacist, Edwin Sumner, and the daughter of another, Phil...
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Louis P. Harvey

Date: 1860
Description: Portrait of Republican Louis P. Harvey, while he was Wisconsin secretary of state (1860-1861). Harvey became governor in January, 1862, but drowned in the ...
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Keyes Family Children

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Joseph, Kate, and William, the three children of Madison attorney, postmaster, and Republican Party boss Elisha W. Keyes and hi...
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Caroline Stevens Keyes

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Caroline Stevens Keyes, the first wife of Madison political leader Elisha W. Keyes. The couple was married in 1854 and Mrs. Key...
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Unidentified Woman with Infant

Date: 1848
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated woman in a long-sleeve printed dress and shoulder-length side curls, holding a sleeping baby on her lap with her righ...

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