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Camp Girl with Bugle

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Description: A girl wearing what appears to be a camp uniform-style dress plays a bugle on a hilltop.
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Music Hall at Immaculate Heart Academy

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Description: Interior of the music hall at Immaculate Heart Academy. A table and chairs stand in the center of the hall, and pianos and a violin can be seen around the ...
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Clavier of the Mercersburg Academy

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Description: A man sits on a wooded bench to play the clavier at Mercersburg Academy, a school organized in 1893. Lighting hangs from the ceiling to illuminate the cari...
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Board of Trade Band

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Description: Group portrait of the Board of Trade Band. The members of the band hold instruments and stand on the sidewalk in front of a storefront.
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Simoni Martucci and Tomma's White Label Orchestra

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Description: Group portrait of Simoni Martucci and Tomma's White Label Orchestra. Members of the band hold instruments and pose before banners and decoration.
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Washington Mansion

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Description: View of musicians and dancers in front of the Washington Mansion, a wooden home built in 1811 by David Hammond. A band and dancers occupy the front lawn.
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Lewis Arms with a Guitar

Date: 1950
Description: Lewis Arms strums a guitar, with one foot resting on the bumper of a car at 629 Milton Street.
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Presbyterian Church - Anaglyph

Date: 1875
Description: Stereograph of the organ inside of the Presbyterian church. This site is now occupied by the Masonic Temple.
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A Merry Christmas Invitation

Date: 1885
Description: A die cut holiday card that has moving parts. When the string at the bottom is pulled, pictures of children appear and disappear. The image is of a decorat...
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New Year Greetings

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard of a family in a car. It is decorated with flowers, foliage and ribbons. The parents are inside the car, and the son is sitting on the hoo...
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A Merry Christmas

Date: 1910
Description: Holiday postcard of two children. The boy is tooting a horn and the girl is playing a drum. They are both wearing folded paper sailor hats, and the boy wea...
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A Merry Christmas to All

Date: 1912
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus inside of an upside down horseshoe. He has his finger alongside his nose and is wearing a red suit and hat with blue trim. ...
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Merrie Christmasse

Date: 1925
Description: Holiday card with a castle, trees, pine trees with snow and three male figures in medieval style costumes playing musical instruments. Black, red and green...
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Santa Claus with Candy Cane

Date: 1962
Description: Holiday card with Santa Claus holding a candy cane, surrounded by many symbols of the season: angels, stars, candles, birds, stockings, ornaments, gifts, b...
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Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus at the bedside of a child, handing out toys. There are dolls, a bear, a badminton racket and bird, ball and a toy horse. ...
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Holiday Card of Santa Claus at the Door

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card of Santa Claus knocking on a door in a hall with a brick floor. He is wearing a brown coat and hood, with a sack of toys on his back, a basket...
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Holiday Card with Santa, His Sleigh and a Horse

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard of Santa Claus loading his sleigh. A single white horse is hitched to the sleigh and is eating out of a nosebag. There is a gold bell on t...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with a little girl asleep in bed. Santa Claus is gazing at her with a doll in his left hand. He has a sack of toys on his back and is wear...
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Seasons Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with two carolers, one violin player and a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter. In the background is a decorative gold fence over black....
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Circus Performers in Front of the Wisconsin Historical Society

Date: 1908
Description: Circus performers posed in front of the Wisconsin Historical Society, then known as the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

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