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Two Ho-Chunk Women Posing Outdoors

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Description: Two Ho-Chunk women outdoors posing standing in a field in front of some bushes. They are wearing long dresses, several necklaces, file bracelets, and tradi...
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Girls in a Field

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Description: A woman and two Ho-Chunk girls are standing outdoors in a field. The woman on the left is wrapped in a shawl. The face of a girl can be seen just behind he...
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Ho-Chunk Women in Buffalo Dance Lodge

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Description: A group of Ho-Chunk people standing in the rear of a Buffalo Dance Lodge. The Buffalo Dance would take place in the spring, when the grass was long enough ...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Group Posing Outdoors

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Description: A Ho-Chunk group dressed in regalia standing behind an elderly woman, sitting, and child who is standing. The man with the rifle has an appliqué blanket wr...
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Ho-Chunk Group

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Description: Group of Ho-Chunk men, women, and children in a circle, and in smaller groups outside the circle. They are several summer lodges. Probably a meal.
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Ho-Chunk Children on Blanket Outdoors

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Description: Two small Ho-Chunk children are sitting on a blanket, with a young girl wearing a long dress and necklaces standing just behind them. Canvas tents and a do...
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Ho-Chunk Group Portrait

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Description: A group of four Ho-Chunk women, one Ho-Chunk man, and two Ho-Chunk girls posed standing outdoors in front of some shrubs and a tent.
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Two Older Women Posing Near House

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Description: Portrait of two older women posing standing in front of a house near steps leading up to a door. Both women are wearing blouses and long skirts, and have t...
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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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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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Man Photographing his Aunt

Date: 07 1982
Description: Dr. Greg Langenfeld photographs his aunt Clara Bandlow with his Leica camera.
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Class of 1884

Date: 06 16 1934
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Class of 1884 at their 50th reunion.
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Girls in a Garden

Date: 1910
Description: Four girls pose in a garden next to a house between the Post Office and Council Rooms on Main Street. Lillian Muller is seated on the ground. Behind her, p...
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Listers Agricultural Chemical Works Card

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Description: Advertising card featuring a color illustration of a woman in a bonnet holding a rectangular parasol. Text at bottom reads: "Pure Animal Bone Fertilizer."
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Outdoor Portrait of Florentina Krueger

Date: 09 1904
Description: Outdoor portrait of Florentina Krueger standing in a yard next to an ivy-covered wall among shrubs and plants. She is wearing a hat and holding an umbrella...
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The Goetsch Sisters

Date: 1893
Description: The Goetsch sisters sit and stand in two rows on the family farm. They are wearing dark dresses. Names: (back row) Martha G. Buelke, unidentified, Lydia; (...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Three Women

Date: 1913
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Ida Scholz, Edna Weigel, and Ella Scholz standing in front of a hedge.
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Three Women Sitting Outdoors

Date: 1913
Description: Outdoor portrait of Ida Scholz, Edna Weigel, and Ella Scholz sitting on a bench in front of a large hedge.
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Clara Krause

Date: 1905
Description: Outdoor portrait of Clara Krause (?) standing in the grass amongst several trees.
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Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 132

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Description: The parson came. He said it well:
Enough is all we want, to hold and sleep on,
not the sky.
A little harvest of the sorrows
between the sentenc...

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