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Zimmel — Artwork on Barn

Date: 2004
Description: The artwork on this barn was done by Andrea Zimmel.
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Breast Feeding vs. Bottle Feeding

Date: 1915
Description: Poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. The poster shows a bar graph comparing monthly infant deaths for breast fed and bottle fed babies. There...
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Nyhus Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eleven members of the Nyhus family, including four women, four men, and three young boys.
Postcard

Young Men and Women Posing with Nun

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a nun, one young man and five young women in front of a painted backdrop. The children are all ho...
Postcard

Santa and Girl in Sleigh

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Description: Photographic postcard of Santa and a young girl, Mary Jane Turner, in his sleigh. Her head is next to his and her arm is around his shoulders. Reindeer can...
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African American Man Standing Next to Young Girl on Pony

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Description: Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ...
Postcard

Man and Young Girl

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Charles Faust, seated in a chair, holding Lynne Faust Hilgers on his lap. He is wearing a shi...
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Studio Portrait of a Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man and woman posed sitting. The man is holding a small girl, and is surrounded by a man, two young wom...
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Studio Portrait of Large Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, boy and girl posed sitting and surrounded by two men, three women, two boys and a girl.
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Studio Portrait of Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman and boy posed sitting on a stone wall, near a young man, boy and girl. Probably Charles Stei...
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Studio Portrait of the Laib Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a large family, probably the Laib family. Laib was a Civil War veteran and gunsmith and had a shop on Tow...
Postcard

Man and Two Children

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a seated man with a boy and a girl, one on each knee. They are posed in front of a painted backdrop.
Photograph

Gunder Larson and Family

Date: 1888
Description: Full-length studio portrait of the Gunder Larson Family. Front row: Mary Jane Rodgers Larson, Arthur Larson, Gunder Larson. Back row: Margaret Slossen Lars...
Photograph

Peter Schuster Family

Date: 1870
Description: A family portrait of the Peter Schuster Family in front of a painted backdrop.
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Harold McCormick Family Portrait

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Description: Full-length formal studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the family of Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick. From left to right, st...
Postcard

Greetings from Burlington

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Description: Color reproduction of a painting of a river in the mountains. Two people are standing near the river. Caption reads: "Greetings from Burlington, Wis. A Sum...
Photograph

Portrait of Three Women and a Girl

Date: 1918
Description: Studio portrait of three women and a girl in front of a painted backdrop. Two of the older women are seated, and the girl, wearing a large hair bow, is sta...
Book or Pamphlet

1964 New York World's Fair Brochure

Date: 1963
Description: Cover of a promotional brochure for the 1964 New York World's Fair. Artwork on the cover shows a family with two young children, as well as other fairgoers...
Photograph

Eight People Dining

Date: 1893
Description: Stereograph of an interior group portrait of eight people sitting around a dining table. Identified as the B.G. Stieg family, the W. Dittberner family, Ann...
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Coffmans Posing Behind Cutouts

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Description: Carl Coffman and his mother, Evelyn B. Coffman, posing behind caricatures of a coach and a UW football player. Sid Boyum was the artist who painted the cut...

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