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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior view of home, perhaps taken through an open window. The sash and sill are in the foreground. A woman is sitting on the piano bench in front of a g... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frances Folsom Cleveland, wife of President Grover Cleveland, during his first term. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man posing sitting in a stuffed chair and a woman standing, with her arm on his shoulder, facing him wi... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of the Yeatman sisters resting their arms on a piece of furniture in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of elderly woman in black dress with large bow at neck, seated in chair with hands crossed in her lap in front of a painted backdrop. She w... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an elderly couple, both seated in chairs in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Belle Knickerbocker of Shullsburg, Wisconsin. She is holding a book in her left... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A woman stands beside a religious painting (of her own making?). |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American woman in a formal dress seated on a sofa. Photograph was taken by Berdette E. Akin, w... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a young Mary Virginia McCormick (1861-1941) in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a white dress with a striped sash, and sittin... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a woman standing in front of a painted backdrop with her hand resting on a stuffed chair. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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| Description: | Studio portrait of a girl standing and leaning on the back of a stuffed chair in front of a painted backdrop. Probably Joan Olson, the daughter of Pete Ols... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a girl standing in a white dress, holding up a part of her dress and resting her hand on a chair in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Ida Lizzie Decorra Blowsnake (Real Wampum Woman) (WooRooShiekESkaeWinKah), ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on a prop wooden fence, and two Ho-Chunk men flanking her. The woman is wearing a shawl over her head, a... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Oscar (Mary) Rennebohm arranging flowers in the drawing room of the Wisconsin Governor's residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The house is 93 years old ... |
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