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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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Little Mothers Class

Date: 1915
Description: Mothers in class learning to care for their babies. The caption reads: "Little Mothers Class in Connection with School Work".
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Tall-tale Postcard: Will It Go In (without Vegetables)

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Will It Go In." Two men stand over an open cellar door, with their hands...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Shooting the Shoots (without Carrots)

Date: 1913
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Shooting the Shoots." A small girl is sliding down a wooden plank, whic...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Shooting the Shoots (with Carrots)

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of children playing on giant carrots. Two girls are sliding down a giant carrot while a third is climbing up the steps to get to the top of th...
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Reaper Exhibit and Film Tent

Date: 1910
Description: A small crowd outside a large tent that adverstises "Reaper Motion Pictures." The tent is likely part of an International Harvester exhibit at a fair or ag...
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Jenk and Mother

Date: 1912
Description: Georgia Lloyd Jones holds her son Jenkin Lloyd Jones, born Nov. 1911, on a hobby horse.
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J. Robert Taylor Family on Porch

Date: 1910
Description: Mother and children on front porch. Identified as Fred Taylor in the baby carriage, Ellen Taylor Higgins, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, and Donna Taylor Adams.
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Baby's First Birthday

Date: 1911
Description: The J. Robert family posed around baby Fred in a high chair with his first birthday cake. Family members are identified from left as Ellen Taylor Higgins,...
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Portrait of Mae Mary Smith and Daughters

Date: 1913
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk women and and infant. On the left is Mae Mary Smith Whitewater (WaRaKaKaKah), with daughter...
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man and Infant

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man sitting with his leg crossed, and wearing a suit coat, bandana, and hat. He is holding his infant son who is wrapped in a...
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Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men and an Infant

Date: 1911
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk men posing sitting and wearing suits, bow ties, and hats. Andrew John (Big) Blackhawk (WaCon...
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Three Ho-Chunk Women with an Infant

Date: 1915
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop. Lucy Thunderking Lowe Yellowbank (MaHiskaWinKah), sitting on the left, is holding her nephew David Ne...
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Three Ho-Chunk Women and Infant in Front of Log House

Date: 1910
Description: View across yard towards three unidentified women and an infant posing in front of a log home located near Wittenberg. It seemed strange to many Ho-Chunk t...
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: Baby's Food, No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster with illustration showing a mother holding her baby with the text "breast fed baby has 15 changes to live compared with the bottle fed baby'...
Poster

"Don't Waste Food While Others Starve!"

Date: 1917
Description: United States Food Administration poster depicting a woman holding a crying infant on her shoulder with one arm, and her other arm around a young girl who ...
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Danger of Pests

Date: 1914
Description: Illustration made for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to demonstrate the danger of pests, including diseases carried by insects...
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Children and Adults Gathered near Passenger Car

Date: 1917
Description: Group of youth gathered near a passenger car listening to a man identified as "Governor Howard." The man is most likely Edgar Howard, Lieutenant Governor o...
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No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk

Date: 1915
Description: Copy print of a poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. At the center is an image of a painting depicting a woman nursing a baby by Heckman & Zi...
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Rogers Family

Date: 1917
Description: Portrait of some of the William Henry Rogers family. Pictured are Maude Rogers Taylor, her parents, William and Martha, and her second son, Lynn H. Taylor.

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