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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Belle Case La Follette by Harris & Ewing used in printed piece. The quote by Robert M. La Follette, Sr., beneath the photogr... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill. |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill. She is wearing round spectacles. |
| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Julius Porter Wait and his wife, Lucretia Melvina (Mosher) Wait. He has a beard, and is sitting on a chair, wearing dark work clothes and tall, loose boots... |
| Date: | 10 15 1904 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stanley Robert McCormick (1874-1947), and his wife Katherine Dexter (1874-1967), at the Chateau de Prangins in Nyons, just outside Geneva, Swit... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Woman posing with "Cuddly Dudley" stuffed animals (dogs) and International Scout pickups as part of a promotional campaign. A sign on each Scout reads: "O... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Ella Wheeler Wilcox wearing a gown. |
| Date: | 02 01 1974 |
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| Description: | Press release photograph of female model, Valerie Robb, posing on the 5,000,000th International Harvester tractor to roll off the assembly line on Feb. 1, ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a female model posing with a Spirit of '76 Cadet lawn tractor. The tractor was meant to commemorate the bicentennial of the... |
| Date: | 09 23 1936 |
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| Description: | A glamour portrait of aviator Beryl Markham inscribed to her publicist Harry Bruno. Markham, a former Kenyan bush pilot, had recently completed (but just b... |
| Date: | 05 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Streeter, wife of Chicago eccentric George Wellington Streeter, posing with her dog in her garden in "Streeterville." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
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| Description: | Miss Martin, Miss Weiland and Joseph(?) Lee pose inside the AGW Company Store. |
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| Description: | Mathilda Hughes, wife of Louis Hughes. They were charter members of St. Mark's AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, and she was the first stewardess o... |
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| Description: | Oval-framed quarter-length studio portrait of young Zona Gale in a white dress. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Two women sitting in the "rest room" at the McCormick Reaper Works. A piano is in the background. |
| Date: | 01 09 1963 |
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| Description: | Mary Barnes, wearing a mink stole and pearls, modeling her outrageous hat. It is wired to light 10 street lights that are arranged around the brim. |
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