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Family on Entryway Steps

Date: 1874
Description: Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova...
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Henry Hooker Family

Date: 1871
Description: The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c...
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Studio Portrait of Three Men

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Description: A studio portrait of three men posing near a stone wall in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing hats, suit jackets, and trousers.
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Portrait of Four Workmen

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Description: Four workmen, two sitting and two standing, pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing hats, and there is a wood rusti...
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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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Couple with Children

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Description: A studio portrait of a couple with two children posing in front of a painted backdrop. A man wearing a suit jacket, vest, tie, and trousers sits on a studi...
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Man, Woman, and Child

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Description: A studio portrait of a man and small girl in a white dress sitting on a studio prop of a stone wall. The man wears a suit jacket, vest, and trousers. A wom...
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Group Portrait of Children and Adults

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Description: A large group consisting of five males and four females pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop around a studio prop of a stone wall. The...
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Adults and Children around Stone Wall

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Description: A studio portrait of seven individuals in front of a painted backdrop. A man in a suit jacket, vest, and trousers sits on the studio prop of a stone wall a...
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Portrait of a Group

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Description: A studio portrait of three young women, a young man, and two youth gathered around a prop stone wall in front of a painted backdrop. The man and boy are we...
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Group in front of Wooden Fence

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Description: A studio portrait of four women and two men posed in front of a wooden prop fence in front of a painted backdrop. The women are wearing long dresses and ha...
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Man, Two Women and Three Children

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Description: A studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man with a moustache sitting on a prop stone wall with three children, one on his lap. Two women in ...
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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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Elderly Man and Children

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Description: A studio portrait, in front of a painted backdrop, of an elderly man with a beard sitting and holding a stuffed bird to attract the attention of two childr...
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Portrait of Children in Costumes

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Description: Ten children wearing costumes peer through a fence and pose for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Seated Girl and Baby Girl and Two Boys

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Description: A studio portrait of group of children next to a wooden fence in front of a painted backdrop. The girl is sitting and wearing a lace-collared dress with ri...
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Henry Greencrow, William Hall and Charlie Greengress with Specimens of Taxidermy

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men wearing suit jackets, trousers, and neckties in front of a painted backdrop. Two are wearing hats a...
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Studio Portrait of Margaret Whitedeer Littlesam, Lee Dick Littlesam, and Emma Stacy Whitedeer Lowery

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length studio portrait of two Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop near a prop wooden fence. The women are wearing earrings, r...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Two Women

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, Frank C. Thunder (son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), sitting,...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man and Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of group posing in front of a painted backdrop with a prop fence. Two Ho-Chunk women are sitting and wearing several necklaces,...

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