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Add-a-Toy Mountain

Date: 12 17 1930
Description: View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta...
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Christmas Scene

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas.
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Little Girls in the Sun

Date: 1890
Description: Two small girls dressed in ruffles and bows sit on a woven carpet outside in the sun.
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John and Marilyn Knutson Apartment

Date: 10 07 1953
Description: A dining set standing inside the dining room in the apartment of John and Marilyn Knutson.
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Parlors at the Basswood, Long Lake

Date: 1926
Description: Vacationers in the parlor of the Basswood in Long Lake. A banner on the piano in the background says: "Northern Wis. State Fair."
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Esther A. Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Esther Elmer, 20, poses with jars of fruits and vegetables which she has canned. A fancy carpet is hanging behind her as a backdrop. She wrote on the rever...
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Pueblo Home — Parsons Indian Village

Date: 1932
Description: Eight Native American men pose around the two-story stucco sided Pueblo Home. They are all wearing traditional dress, with four wearing headdresses, and on...
Postcard

Child's Bedroom

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Description: Color postcard of the daughter's bedroom in the Dewey home.
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Muscoda High School Basketball Team

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ...
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Muscoda High School Basketball Team

Date: 1903
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Muscoda High School Girls' Basketball Team and their coach. The frame has the S. Gillett imprint, but ...
Postcard

Gag Photo of a Man Posing with Paper Woman

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Description: A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding...
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Grace May Hall as a Circus Child

Date: 1891
Description: Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck.
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Studio Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two European American boys posed fighting, holding up their right fists as if punching. They are both wea...
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Studio Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified family. A man and a woman are posing sitting, and the woman is holding an infant in her lap. Behind them a man and woman...
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Christmas Tree

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Description: View of a living room with a decorated Christmas tree in between a piano and an upholstered chair. Toys are arranged beneath the tree.
Postcard

William Fiebelkorn Home

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Description: William Fiebelkorn's family sit together in a sitting room. The two children pose with toys. There is a stuffed animal near William's feet. Anna Fiebelkorn...
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Petersen House

Date: 1930
Description: The fireplace in the living room of the Edward Petersen house features a classical revival surround and mantel. A small stuffed toy dog sits under a carved...
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The Moccasin Game

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Description: Several Indian men kneel on a rug to play the moccasin game. One man is holding a drum and wearing a headdress (also called a war bonnet).
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Mary and Howard Greene

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Description: Full-length portrait of Mary Lydia Greene and Howard Greene posing with toys. Mary has a doll in a baby buggy, and Howard has a locomotive placed on a chai...
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The Ouija Board

Date: 04 2014
Description: View of a Ouija board lying on an ornately detailed rug.

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