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Franz Massing, Wife and Child

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Description: Half plate ambrotype of Franz Massing with his wife, and daughter Frances. Massing was the founder of the Madison Mannerchor in 1870. The family is seated....
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Lucy Moody

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Description: Ninth plate ambrotype. Waist-up portrait of Lucy Moody. Lucy is wearing a dark dress with a white-work collar, and a brooch at the neck. Over the dress she...
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Ambrotype Portrait of Man and Woman

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Description: A pair of sixth plate ambrotype waist-up portraits of an unidentified man and woman. In each portrait the subject is seated with the left hand on the lap a...
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Stanley Stemp Dressed for Parade

Date: 1933
Description: Stanley P. Stemp (right) and an employee dressed as patriots for a Washington's birthday sale parade. They are posed next to the Stemp Typewriter Company w...
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Girls Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 02 1954
Description: Group of six girls, three sitting on a bench L to R: Dolly O'Meara, Rozanne Petratta, and Mary Louise Masino, with a piano behind them, and the other three...
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Women Seated at Table

Date: 1966
Description: Two women are outdoors seated at a table in front of a building, surrounded by several people. One of the women is holding a document in her hands, showing...
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Shirley Schlanger Abrahamson

Date: 09 06 1976
Description: Shirley Abrahamson, the first woman to be appointed as a Justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, takes her oath. Chief Justice Bruce Beilfuss is on t...
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Unidentified Civil War Soldier

Date: 1861
Description: Sixth plate tintype/ferrotype of an unidentified soldier from the 13th Wisconsin Infantry. He is sitting in a chair holding a horn in his right hand. Hand-...
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Edward Hollander

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Description: Edward Hollander is seated with an unidentified woman at an Americans for Democratic Action event.
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Emilie Larson

Date: 1931
Description: A girl posing at the side of the Miles District No. 2 School. Selected as the "girl 4-H champion," Emilie, age 12, was noted by her teacher as "an outstand...
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Elizabeth Nord

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Elizabeth Nord wearing a pearl necklace.
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Henrietta Newcomb Waller

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Description: Head and shoulders vignetted portrait of Henrietta Waller, mother of Ida Schilling. She is wearing earrings and a ribbon in her hair.
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ...
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Marian Violet Metcalf

Date: 1931
Description: Marian Metcalf, teacher at Dyer School, poses on a sidewalk in front of the porch of a stuccoed house.
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Dave and Mary Lou

Date: 1994
Description: Mary Lou Munts, a member of the Wisconsin Assembly, and Congressman David R. Obey at a fundraiser for Obey at the Madison Club.
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Political Fundraiser

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Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (left) and Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl at a fundraiser for Obey. Jim Chapman is the man between them.
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Robert Doyle and Indigenous Man

Date: 01 07 1943
Description: Text attached to a print made from the negative reads, "This photo of me with a Papuan native carrier was made near Buna early in January. This fellow with...
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Bertha Swingle

Date: 1932
Description: Bertha Swingle, wearing a print dress and hat, poses outdoors in front of a door at her home. There is a large hosta plant on the left and other shrubbery ...
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Woman Posing Outdoors

Date: 1918
Description: Portrait of a woman wearing a long dark dress standing in front of a birch tree and a wooden fence.
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Vel Phillips

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Description: Vel Phillips seated at a table. She is wearing a flowered dress and has her hands clasped together.

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