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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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Woman and Baby

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Description: A woman in a light top and dark skirt tending to a baby propped on a chair wearing a long white gown. A parlor stove is on the right, and tapestries are ha...
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Ada Bass with Children

Date: 1894
Description: Portrait of Ada Bass seated while holding son Cary, with daughter Everetta standing next to her. Another woman, possibly Ada's mother, Arlina Burlingame, i...
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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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Lemmer Family with Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: Kenneth Lemmer Jr., sitting in a high chair, is playing with a Christmas tree ornament. His mother Katherine Lemmer is wrapping Christmas presents at a tab...
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Getting Ready for Christmas

Date: 12 16 1947
Description: Making an attractive Christmas picture, Janet Woodman holds her baby son, Douglas Shaw, in the center of a huge pine wreath hanging in a doorway.
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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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Four Generations of Family Females

Date: 03 27 1948
Description: A four-generation group portrait of three women with an infant. Taken for Mrs. Bakken.
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Woman and Infant

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Description: A woman is holding an infant on her lap, probably Mrs. John H. Mills with son, Dudley.
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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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Nurse and Newborn

Date: 1897
Description: A nurse sits with Mrs. D.W. Osborn's week-old newborn.
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Ernst Friedlander Family in Home

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Portrait of Ernst and Marie Friedlander with their baby, Helen, in the living room of their home that Ernst designed. The room includes a stone wall firepl...
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Clara and Forest Middleton

Date: 1892
Description: Clara Middleton holds her naked infant son Forest on her lap. There are many throw pillows around them, including one that features a "W" and the cheer "U!...
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Baby Krueger Twins in Basket

Date: 10 15 1899
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger, at age 6 months and 4 days, in a basket on a rug on the floor. A blanket is draped behind them. Edgar's weight is 22 pounds, Jenn...
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Thanksgiving with Grandmother

Date: 11 18 1954
Description: Deborah Fagan, 2 years; Katherine Fagan, 2 months; Mary Fagan, mother; Helen Fagan, grandmother, celebrate a three-generational Thanksgiving at the Fagan h...
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Four Generations of Women

Date: 1910
Description: Four generations of women pose in the corner of a room. They include (left to right): Grandmother Klause, mother Ida Klause Miller, Great-Grandmother Wolf,...
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Woman and Baby in a Room

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Description: View of a woman standing on the left next to a wood burning stove. She is looking at an infant in a bassinet in the center of a room. A large portrait of a...
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Baby in Baby Carriage in Room

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Description: An infant is sitting in a baby carriage in a room with wallpapered walls. On the right is an upholstered chair, and on the left is a table with a large lam...
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A Family at Ease

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Description: William Fiebelkorn's family gathered in a living room. William Sr. is in a rocking chair with his hands clasped. His brother August Fiebelkorn is reading a...

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