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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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Unkempt Bedroom with Children

Date: 03 1909
Description: A young boy and girl sitting on an iron bedstead in the corner of their unkempt bedroom.
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The Riesen Family

Date: 05 28 1955
Description: The Riesen family, John, Jeanne, Linda and Jon, playing in their home.
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Man Reads Magazine to Young Child

Date: 08 1925
Description: Mr. Wolfe sitting in a chair reading Successful Farming magazine to a young child on his lap.
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Harold S. Dyer Family

Date: 05 03 1957
Description: Group portrait of the eight grandchildren of Harold and Hannah Dyer, 21 West Gilman Street.
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Alice Brown

Date: 1899
Description: Alice Brown in the Fred & Annie Brown house, 121 East Gilman Street.
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Annie Storer Brown and Two Children

Date: 1898
Description: Annie Storer Brown with two children, Eleanore Annie Brown (on her lap), and Alice Brown (in rocking chair), at their home, 121 East Gilman Street.
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Two Children Posing in Parlor

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Description: Two children posing in a parlor, probably Dudley and Marguerite Osborn inside the Spaulding House.
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Christmas Tree

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Description: Child with a Christmas tree and presents in a house.
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Everetta Bass with Brother Cary

Date: 1894
Description: Everetta Bass standing next to her brother Cary, asleep in a baby carriage. They are most likely inside the Bass family home.
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Everetta Bass with Brother Cary

Date: 1894
Description: Cary Bass, son of the photographer, asleep in baby carriage with his sister Everetta standing nearby.
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Two Children Play with International Harvester Toys

Date: 05 15 1927
Description: A young boy and girl play with International Harvester toys in front of a fireplace and feather Christmas tree. The toys include a truck, tractor, thresher...
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Getting Ready for Christmas

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: June (Mrs. Robert O.) McLean, and her children Roderick and Gwen, putting the finishing touches on a Gingerbread House.
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Getting Ready for Christmas

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: June McGovern is reading The Night Before Christmas to her children Diane, Jill and Jackie.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service is advising Mrs. Chester B. Van Roo, the former Mary Lou Bell, on the care of her chil...
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Interior Design Demonstration

Date: 07 14 1928
Description: Home economics demonstration about interior design for the women attending an Agricultural Extension Station Day.
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Rochelle Alpert Lighting Hanukkah Candles

Date: 12 1954
Description: Rochelle Alpert, daughter of Holocaust survivor, Pela Rosen Alpert, lighting Hanukkah candles.
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J. Robert Taylor Family with Christmas Tree

Date: 1915
Description: Family posed with Christmas tree in living room. Identified from left as Donna Taylor Adams, Alma Reinhardt Taylor, Ellen Taylor Higgins, and Fred Taylor ...
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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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