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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
Postcard

La Crosse Riverfront

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Riverfront from Pettibone Park, La Crosse, Wis." There are three steamboats docked on the right in the harbor. A mother and her children ar...
Photograph

Biss with Her Mother, Georgia Lloyd Jones

Date: 1914
Description: Georgia Lloyd Jones and her daughter Florence (Bis or Bisser) on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Agricultural Hall is in the background...
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Alma Reinhardt Taylor

Date: 1915
Description: Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin...
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Mother and Children with Sled in Front Yard

Date: 12 25 1910
Description: Winter scene with Alma Reinhardt Taylor and her children (from left) Frederick Taylor, Donna Taylor Adams, and Ellen Taylor Higgins. The children are posi...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Wife and Children of Little Solder

Date: 1910
Description: Full-length studio group portrait of a Ho-Chunk family in front of a painted backdrop. Mary Littlesoldier (HoUpTchooJayWinKah), left, is sitting with her d...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family. In the background is a painted backdrop. Names (sitting) David Bow Littlesoldier (Maw Jhay Mau Nee Kah). ...
Poster

"Don't Waste Food While Others Starve!"

Date: 1917
Description: United States Food Administration poster depicting a woman holding a crying infant on her shoulder with one arm, and her other arm around a young girl who ...
Photograph

The Pierce Family Home

Date: 1912
Description: A woman and three children pose in front of the Pierce family's house on Williamson Street. From left to right are Leo Kronenberg, Gertrude Kronenberg, The...
Photograph

Brass Band at Railroad Depot

Date: 02 26 1915
Description: A brass band led by W.F. Casey, standing at left, welcomes four Alabama Crop Diversification Campaign speakers at a train depot. A train and several buildi...
Photograph

No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk

Date: 1915
Description: Copy print of a poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. At the center is an image of a painting depicting a woman nursing a baby by Heckman & Zi...
Photograph

Rogers Family

Date: 1917
Description: Portrait of some of the William Henry Rogers family. Pictured are Maude Rogers Taylor, her parents, William and Martha, and her second son, Lynn H. Taylor.
Photograph

Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, center, and two of his daughters, on the right, pick cherries with others in the family's orchard. They have small pail...
Photograph

Family Along Country Road

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, sits, (right) in front of a rock with an unidentified woman, as daughters Alice, standing, and Helen pose on top of the...
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
Photograph

Rosemary Holahan and Rose Tapley, an Actress

Date: 1913
Description: American stage and silent film actress Rose Tapley and her daughter Rosemary Holahan in a studio portrait autographed by Tapley.
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Bryant Washburn with his Son and Wife

Date: 1917
Description: Essanay silent film star Bryant Washburn in U.S. Army sergeant's uniform sits on the grass with his little son Bryant Washburn, Jr., and his wife, the actr...
Photograph

Bryant Washburn, Mabel Forrest and Bryant Washburn Jr.

Date: 1919
Description: The silent film star Bryant Washburn and his wife the actress Mabel Forrest watch as their little son Bryant Washburn, Jr., plays with a wind-up toy truck ...
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Group on Europe Bay Beach

Date: 1915
Description: A group of children and adults enjoy a sunny day at the beach. Those identified include Mrs. Ferdinand (Clothilde Schmidt) Hotz, on left with hat and light...

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