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Farm Family in Living Room

Date: 1900
Description: A farm family posing in their living room. Sitting from left to right is John Dietrich (1874-1947), Grace Bowman (1879-1964), and Mrs. Lizzie Macke Dietric...
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Family at Dining Room Table

Date: 1900
Description: A family poses at the dining room table after dinner in Luther Valley.
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Election Night

Date: 11 1948
Description: Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's...
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Uncle Cary wth Children

Date: 1900
Description: Great Uncle Cary posing with Everetta and Cary Bass. They are most likely seated inside the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street.
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Barry Family Posed Indoors

Date: 1900
Description: John Barry and his family seated around a piano in their home.
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Family in Living Room

Date: 
Description: In the center is a man posing sitting in a chair. Beside him on the left are two teenage girls standing near a doorway, and on the right standing next to h...
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Gulley's 25th Anniversary Party

Date: 07 1955
Description: Beatrice (Bea) and Carson Gulley posing together at their 25th wedding anniversary party in their new home at 5701 Cedar Place. The home was located in the...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 19-32

Date: 
Description: Unkind to speak of the ancestral vocabulary as dream-talk,
unkind to wake the dreamer
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Professor Rasmus B. Anderson at Home

Date: 1902
Description: Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, noted authority on Scandinavian affairs, with Karema Anderson and his son Rolf, with dog “Ned”, in their home.
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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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Bardes Family

Date: 1910
Description: The Bardes Family poses in their home. Family members pictured include (left to right): Nora, Jerry, Alice, Mrs. Bardes, and Barbara. The portrait also inc...
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Riebe's Party

Date: 02 10 1901
Description: Indoor group portrait of neighbors who gathered together for a party at the Reibe's house. Alexander Krueger is sitting in the front on the left, with his ...
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Group Portrait at Reibe's Party

Date: 02 10 1901
Description: Indoor group portrait of several neighbors who gathered together for a party at the Reibe House. Sarah Krueger is third from the right in the back row. Her...
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Group Portrait of the Morris Family

Date: 09 24 1896
Description: A Morris family group portrait in their home library. Full bookcases surround a window. Mr. and Mrs. Morris are seated, while their daughter stands between...
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Indoor Portrait of Blanchard Harper

Date: 1896
Description: Three-quarter length indoor portrait of Blanchard Harper.
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Jennie and Edgar

Date: 1941
Description: Jennie Krueger Bruetzman and Edgar Krueger sitting together on the sofa in the living room.
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Together on the Couch

Date: 1961
Description: Edgar and Elna Krueger sitting with friends on a couch. A cat sits on the lap of a man in overalls in the center. Edgar sits in overalls next to him with E...
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Morris Family Library

Date: 09 24 1896
Description: Group portrait of the Morris family in their family library. Mr. and Mrs. Morris sit in two chairs, while their daughter stands in between them behind a ta...
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Mrs. Calvin Johnson and Others

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Description: Indoor group portrait of a man and three women. The woman sitting on the right is identified as Mrs. Calvin Johnson. The items on the mantle and in room ar...
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Dickey Chapelle and King Hussein

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle seated on a sofa photographing King Hussein, who is seated across from her in a chair.

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