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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou... |
| Date: | 06 01 1934 |
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| Description: | Jean Randolph, with bandaged ankle, which she sprained when she fell from the ladder on which she is standing, drawing an 8' x 12' crayon mural of a knight... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a butcher wearing an apron, and holding a cleaver and saw. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin... |
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| Description: | Five women pose for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop with various household articles such as an iron, feather duster, platter, cup, pitcher,... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of six women posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are holding household items including an iron, knife, potato, dustpan, broom, pi... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of six young men pretending to pull a seated young man's tooth with pliers. One man is on the floor holding the dental patient's legs. Thre... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two men, probably lumberjacks, that are posed playing cards, drinking, and smoking in front of a painted backdrop. The two men are sit... |
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| Description: | Two unidentified white men, dressed as lumberjacks, sit on a wood log in Van Schaick's studio, drinking, smoking and playing cards, with a saw and an axe n... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, seated second from right, with three other curl... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Trick photograph featuring two images of Sherwin Gillett doing laundry in a washtub. He is posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of seven European American women. Four of them are posing standing and three are posing sitting, with an inf... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young woman posing standing on fake grass and holding on to a prop gate on a fence. She is holding a Sh... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of five children posing standing together on a stage with a painted backdrop. They are wearing theatrical costumes and holding farming tool... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of woman a posing standing and holding a rake with her right hand, and wearing a dark-colored dr... |
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| Description: | Ferrotype/tintype of a full-length portrait of two men posing with bricks and trowels in front of a painted backdrop. They are standing next to a faux ston... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio group portrait of fifteen men and women posing together in front of a painted backdrop. Some of the people are holding weaving tools. |
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