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Ho-Chunk Women and Girl Making Fry Bread

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Description: Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ...
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Ho-Chunk Man Walking with European American Man

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Description: View down wooden sidewalk towards a Ho-Chunk man smoking a cigar and wearing a duck bone breast plate and fur pants on the left, and a European American ma...
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Ho-Chunk Children on Blanket Outdoors

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Description: Two small Ho-Chunk children are sitting on a blanket, with a young girl wearing a long dress and necklaces standing just behind them. Canvas tents and a do...
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Young Woman

Date: 1915
Description: A young woman sits on a log which lies over a stream bed in a wooded area.
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Violet and Judith Dousman

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Description: Violet and Judith Dousman seated together between a canna bed and a weeping mulberry.
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Samuel L. Popkin

Date: 1972
Description: Political scientist Samuel L. Popkin and his wife. This photograph was taken about the time Wisconsin-born Popkin was jailed for his refusal to testify abo...
Postcard

Summer White House on the Brule

Date: 1926
Description: Black and white postcard view of Cedar Island Lodge, located on the Brule River, owned by Henry Clay Pierce, businessman and financier. It was dubbed the S...
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Two Women Posing in Sumac Foliage

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Description: Francis Rodenschmidt Doyle and an unidentified woman pose together surrounded by sumac foliage.
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Five Children in a Row

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Description: Five children pose in a row according to height in front of a porch. Their names are Theo Saeman Cavanaugh, Laura Saeman Gronenthal, Louis C. Saeman, Greg ...
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Woman Reclining Outdoors

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Description: A woman reclines on her side in the grass in front of a shrub. She is resting her head on her hand and is wearing a skirt and a blouse. In the background i...
Postcard

Three Children Holding Flags

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Description: Photographic postcard of three young children standing on a porch, each holding an American Flag. They are wearing dresses, stockings and shoes. Two are gi...
Photograph

Delivery of Bread Right To Your Door

Date: 1939
Description: A woman standing on her doorstep buys bread from a deliveryman. His truck is parked in the driveway. Text on the truck reads "Capitol Bakers, 'Right' to yo...
Photograph

Obey Family

Date: 1972
Description: David and Joan Obey shortly after the birth of their second son Douglas. Playing with Douglas is older brother Craig. This portrait was probably made for a...
Photograph

Woman and Girl on Shady Lane

Date: 1912
Description: Clothilde Hotz poses with her daughter Margaret on a shady lane. Margaret holds a parasol.
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Hotz Children

Date: 1910
Description: The photographer's children, Ferdinand Leonard and Margaret (Sissy) Hotz pose on the grounds of the Hotz residence in Glencoe, Illinois.
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Mrs. Ch. Harris

Date: 1925
Description: A woman stands at the gate beside a wood frame house, possibly at Newport. The downspout on the house drains into a rain barrel. There are outbuildings beh...
Book or Pamphlet

International Scout 800 Brochure

Date: 1965
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the International Scout 800, featuring a color photograph of a woman behind the wheel of a Scout truck. There is a you...
Print

Solar Home Centerspread

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Description: Center spread of a 12 page booklet named "Homes for tomorrow's happy living." The illustration is of a father, seated on the ground, and a mother, seated i...
Photograph

Family on Porch

Date: 1890
Description: Several generations of a family posing on the porch of a house.
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Marie E. Adams

Date: 1932
Description: The teacher at the New Fane School, District No. 2, Town of Auburn, Fond du Lac County, poses near a fence with shrubbery behind her.

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