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The Conrad Schmitt Family

Date: 1892
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Conrad Schmitt family of Muscoda. Emma Schmitt married Sherwin Gillett in 1906.
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The Gillett Children

Date: 1920
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Harry (b. 1910), Sherry (b. 1913), and Lorin (b. 1915).
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. A woman is posing sitting in the center holding an infant. She is flanked on the ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified family. A man and a woman are posing sitting, and the woman is holding an infant in her lap. Behind them a man and woman...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. A woman and a man are posing sitting in front of a young woman and a girl, ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. The woman is posing sitting in the center front, flanked by a boy and a girl posi...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. A woman is posing sitting in a chair, holding a child sitting on the arm of the c...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of unidentified family. Two women are posing sitting, with the younger woman on the left holding an in...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. A man is posing sitting on the left holding a girl in his lap. A woman is posing ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified family. A man and a woman are posing sitting, both holding infants in their laps. Both in...
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Family Wedding Portrait with Framed Wreath

Date: 1917
Description: Studio family wedding portrait in front of a painted background with a framed wreath in the center. The wreath is celebrating the wedding of the bride and ...
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Postmaster and Family

Date: 1910
Description: A book in his hands, Postmaster Ed King sits in his wallpapered living room, staring past his wife to the window. Edna, his daughter, is seated at the pian...
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Beulah Irene Miller and Willis Miller, Jr.

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Beulah Irene Miller (1888-1958) and Willis Miller, Jr., sister and brother. Beulah is seated ...
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Catherine Seipp and Her Grandchildren

Date: 12 25 1915
Description: Catherine Orb Seipp, widow of prominent Chicago brewer and founder of Black Point Estate, Conrad Seipp, poses in her Chicago home with her nine grandchildr...
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Mary and Howard Greene

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Description: Full-length portrait of Mary Lydia Greene and Howard Greene posing with toys. Mary has a doll in a baby buggy, and Howard has a locomotive placed on a chai...
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Singing at Christmas

Date: 1925
Description: Muriel and Laurie singing as their mother, Christine Peterson, plays the organ at Christmas. On the right is a decorated Christmas tree. A large area rug c...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
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Family Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, and two children. The man in the center is wearing a watch fob on his vest and is standing ...
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Family Portrait

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, and two children. The man in the center is wearing a watch fob on his vest and is standing ...
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Muriel and Laurie Peterson with Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1913
Description: Muriel and Laurie Peterson hold hands as they pose for a photograph in front of a decorated Christmas tree. In the background are many prints on the wall a...

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