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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Goldberg family (from left): Sara (mother), Rosa Goldberg Katz, Uncle Hirsch, Moishe (brother), Abraha... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Salvator Moshe in a custom-made suit, which he paid for with cigarettes, chocolate, and coffee; Weilheim, German... |
| Date: | 08 1914 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an 85-year-old Ho-Chunk man, White Rabbit Longtail, posing standing and smiling while pretending to scalp his friend, C.A. L... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American boy dressed in the costume of a stereotypical newsboy. The child holds up a newspaper in one hand and holding a stac... |
| Date: | 10 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of two sisters posed with a guitar and a mandolin in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing dresses, and one sister has a lace... |
| Date: | 06 1921 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eight young women, each standing and holding a bicycle. Three of the women also hold brownie cameras. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four women, seated in front of three men, all unidentified. The women wear high-collared white blouses and long dark skirts. The men wear... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop, retouched, of J.H. Denison. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Vienna Cafe at the Milwaukee Bazaar. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three boys in black robes each holding a book. The boys stand with two potted plants, and a prop wall of s... |
| Date: | 04 19 1970 |
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| Description: | Lynn Fontanne, Sir Noel Coward, and Alfred Lunt seated at a table in the Pyrenees Restaurant after the Tony Awards presentations at which Lunt and Fontanne... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | William R. "Bill" Kinney (1912-1978; second from left) and friends enjoy a beer at the Miller Brewery. Bill and his brother Howard Kinney owned the White F... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Harold McCormick and his two young daughters pose on a sled/sledge in front of a painted background. |
| Date: | 07 1901 |
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| Description: | Standing full-length portrait of Henry Bartholomay forms the left half of a postcard. The message reads: "Love and Greetings from Your loving cousin Henry ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Formal studio portrait of the Berger family and a young boy in front of a painted backdrop. Names, left to right: Doris Berger, Jack Anderson, Victor Berge... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Arthur J. Packard, an early Manitowoc photographer known for views of the area, its people, harbor and marine vessels fro... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Formal full-length portrait of Perry Small Franklin. He is seated on a chair in front of a painted backdrop. The collar disc on his military uniform reads ... |
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