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Ho-Chunk Woman Tanning a Buckskin

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman tanning a buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background.
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Ho-Chunk Woman Tanning a Buckskin

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman tanning buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background.
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Portrait of Francis Douty Bennett

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Francis Douty Bennett.
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Church Skit

Date: 06 26 1963
Description: Hope United Church of Christ members are putting on a skit of the "roaring twenties."
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Tea Party

Date: 05 05 1963
Description: Mother pouring tea for her twins at the mother and daughter tea, sponsored by the Brookfield Woman's Club.
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Harold F. McCormick and his Wife Edith Rockefeller

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Harold Fowler McCormick with his first wife Edith Rockefeller McCormick.
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Space-Saving Washer and Dryer

Date: 1950
Description: Woman demonstrating a new space-saving Westinghouse washer/dryer unit.
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Woman on Motor Scooter

Date: 1958
Description: A motor scooter in an advertisement with female model sitting on a Cushman Road King motor scooter.
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Ganna Walska Holding a Cat

Date: 1921
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ganna Walska, Polish opera singer, holding a cat. At the time this picture was taken, Ganna Walska was th...
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Democrats for Goldwater

Date: 10 28 1964
Description: Women representatives of Democrats for Goldwater from Central Wisconsin rally to support their candidate.
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Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
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Harriet Bell Merrill

Date: 1890
Description: Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill.
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Milwaukee Harvester Company Advertising Card

Date: 1894
Description: Advertising card for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a chromolithograph illustration of a woman holding a tree branch.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Attic Angels Ball — Receiving Line

Date: 04 06 1934
Description: Five women in ball gowns standing in the Attic Angels Ball receiving line in the Loraine Hotel, l to r: Mrs. Erwin Schmidt; Mrs. Wallace W. Chickering, Soc...
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Portrait of Charles May Family

Date: 11 05 1933
Description: Portrait of Charles May family. Father and mother, and three children.
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Helen Schleck

Date: 09 26 1932
Description: Helen Schleck (Mrs. Mathias H.), standing beside a radio, is a Dane County pioneer celebrating her 86th birthday, 1201 Sherman Avenue.
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Tea Party

Date: 12 16 1931
Description: Junior Division (of the University League ?) tea party at the home of Abigail Rundell 2227 Van Hise Avenue. Left to right: Mrs. Russell H. Fitzgibbon, Lila...
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West High School Girls Basketball Team

Date: 05 14 1931
Description: Group portrait of West High School girls basketball team. Seven girls are posing outdoors in street dress.
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Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...

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