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Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
Postcard

Children Posing with Nun

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Description: Studio portrait of three children with flower bouquets in front of a painted backdrop. One boy is seated and two girls are standing. All of the children ar...
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Three Women Posed Around Folding Screen

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three women posing around a folding screen. From left to right, Mamie Meyerkiester, Gertrude Boehnan Endr...
Postcard

Four Young People with Blackberries

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young people. From left to right: Teresa Kalscheur Endres, Frank Kalscheur, Julia Kalscheur, and Ter...
Photograph

Group Portrait in Studio

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Description: Three women and a young man pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The women are wearing blouses and long skirts. The man is wearing a ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Family

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Description: A family of four stands by a studio prop of a stone wall in front of a painted backdrop. The father, in a long suit jacket and trousers, and youngest daugh...
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Portrait of a Couple, Baby Girl, and Dog

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Description: A studio portrait of a standing man and woman, and a small girl and dog sitting on a prop stone wall in front of a painted backdrop. The woman and girl are...
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Portrait of Mother and Daughters

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman wearing a shawl and head scarf, posing sitting in front of her daughters, who are standing, in circa 1920s dress and sh...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Four Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1934
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two adolescent Ho-Chunk women posing standing behind two adolescent Ho-Chunk women posing sitting. They a...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Amanda Bighawk and Marie Bighawk Whitewater and Daughters

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Amanda Bighawk posing sitting holding her son Calvin Smith-Whitewater, and a Ho-Chunk w...
Photograph

Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman and Three Small Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman with a short hairstyle posing sitting. She is wearing a short pearl necklace and a shawl...
Photograph

Copy Photograph of Portrait of Large Group of Women

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Description: Copy photograph in front of a painted backdrop of a studio portrait of a large group of white women. Identified from the bottom row to the top and left to ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk men posing sitting in front of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing. All the men are wearing suits...
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Portrait of Ethel Windblowe, Sarah Windblow, and Elizabeth Thunder Cloud

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting on the left, and two women posing standing in the center and on the right. They are in front of a painte...
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Portrait of Clara St. Cyr, Lucy Davis, and Martha St. Cyr

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Description: Studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of another Ho-Chunk woman posing standing with her left arm on the left shoulder of the woman...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Studio portrait, taken in front of a painted backdrop, of two Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing slightly raised a...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Youth

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Description: Studio portrait, in front of a painted backdrop, of a young Ho-Chunk man posing sitting wearing a suit coat and hat between two young Ho-Chunk women posing...
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Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Women and Two Children

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Description: Full-length studio group portrait. Annie Yellowbank-Beaver, Whitedog is sitting on the left wearing a printed blouse and shawl around her waist. Mary White...
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Quinney Family

Date: 1900
Description: Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Quinney family, including Bridget (O'Keefe) Quinney, her sons Thomas (Tom) and William (Bill), ...
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Group Portrait of Civil War Veterans

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Description: Group portrait of Civil War veterans who compiled the Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers for the Wisconsin Adjutant General's Office in the late 1880s. Back Ro...

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