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Family in their Living Room

Date: 1955
Description: Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set.
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Kitchen Interior

Date: 1910
Description: Woman baking in a large kitchen with lean-to pantry and a wood-burning stove. The sconces or reflectors on the kerosene lamps intensified the light.
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Wellman's Barber Shop

Date: 1874
Description: A highly decorated barber shop interior, possibly Wellman's, with three barbers and three customers. Two men are about to get shaves. A glass display case,...
Photograph

Woman Making Pasties

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Description: Woman wearing a hairnet and an apron fills a pasty in her kitchen. A man wearing coveralls is seated at the table watching.
Photograph

Woman Posed Standing by Window

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Description: Woman posed standing by a window and table in a home. She is holding an object in her right hand, possibly a frame for photographs. On the far right is a p...
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Men with Table Set for Large Meal

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Description: Man posed seated and another man standing in a large room, perhaps a shop of some kind, at a table set for a large meal. Both men are wearing aprons. On th...
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Indoor Group Portrait

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Description: Man and woman pose on left, a girl sitting in a chair is posed holding a doll, with a dog posed sitting in a chair next to her. On the right, a boy is pose...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 387-393

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Description: Hang hope still higher, let it ring
Spend every care this day

for hope itself must decorate the dream
Photograph

Anna Fiebelkorn Playing Carrom

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Description: Anna Fiebelkorn sits at a table playing carrom with her husband William. One of her sisters is watching while sitting in a rocking chair on the left.
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Christmas at the Kruegers

Date: 1940
Description: The Edgar Krueger family sitting on the floor in front of the Christmas tree. From left to right: Edgar, Robert, Shirley, and Elna Krueger. Several of the ...
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Eating at the Dinner Table

Date: 1961
Description: The Edgar Krueger family eating dinner together in the dinning room. A centerpiece of flowers inside a ceramic duck vase sit in the center of the table. St...
Poster

International Harvester Refrigeration Advertisement

Date: 1953
Description: International Harvester Decorator Refrigerator advertisement featured in the Saturday Evening Post, Better Homes and Gardens, and Ladies' ...
Photograph

College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair.
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College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. Interior of shop showing employee's work stations.

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