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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
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Family having Coffee outside House

Date: 1874
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...
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Schaick with Son Shirley

Date: 1898
Description: Studio portrait of a man, woman, and child sitting in a rowboat in front of a painted backdrop. Probably Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Schaick and their son, Sh...
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Osage Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Black Bow's wife, with infant in a papoose, and Saucy Chief's squaw.
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Osage Women and Girl

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Osage women with an infant girl.
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Osage Women and Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Osage women holding children on their backs in infant carriers, with a young girl sitting between the...
Postcard

Staty Family Portrait

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of Elizabeth Dohn Staty, her husband Wolfgang Staty and their infant Martha Staty. They are standing in front of...
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Man, Woman, and Two Children

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Description: A studio portrait of a seated man in a suit jacket, vest, and trousers holding a young girl on his lap. A woman in a dress is standing behind a baby on a t...
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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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Group Portrait of Native Americans

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Description: A studio portrait of a group of Native Americans. A woman in a dress holds an infant in her lap, a man stands behind her, and two young men, one standing a...
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Studio Portrait of George Lowe and Family

Date: 1895
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing, and a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is holding a c...
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Studio Portrait of the Windblowe Sisters and Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman on the left is wearing regalia and the woman on...
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Studio Portrait of the Windblow Sisters and Infant

Date: 1909
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman sitting on the left is wearing rega...
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Copy Photograph of Three Ho-Chunk Women and Infants

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of three Ho-Chunk women posing sitting and holding infants in front of a painted backdrop. The two infants on the left...
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Portrait of Mae Mary Smith and Daughters

Date: 1913
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk women and and infant. On the left is Mae Mary Smith Whitewater (WaRaKaKaKah), with daughter...
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Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Women and Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting with a shawl across her lap, and holding an infant and a photograph. Stan...
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Studio Portrait of Frieda and Stella Stacy with Infant

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women sitting in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing contemporary dress. The woman on the right is also hol...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young Ho-Chunk man posing sitting on the left on a prop stone wall and wearing bandoleers, a necktie, a...
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Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man, Two Women, and an Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting, one holding an infant in her lap, and a man standing. The woman on the...

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