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Harvesting Scene

Date: 1915
Description: Harvesting scene with groups of men, women, and boys and multiple reapers hitched to oxen. Foothills or mountains are in the background, behind a row of t...
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East High School Girl Scouts Troop 48

Date: 06 10 1953
Description: Ten seventh grade Girl Scouts of East High School Troop 48 were awarded first class badges at an outdoor ceremony on the Yahara River. They are shown weari...
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Truck Towing Santa Claus Float in Parade

Date: 11 26 1976
Description: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A cream and white International Harvester Scout 4x4 is pulling a float with a Santa Claus theme. On the float, a group of r...
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Family Gathering Water

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls, a boy, a woman, and an infant. Two children have pots on their heads which Carrie describes as a means to gather water in a number of journals. ...
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Village Building

Date: 1910
Description: Group of people outside of a village dwelling. The building has the "horn-like" roof which Carrie describes in her journal from China and the Philippines. ...
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Cadette Scout Troop 399's Sportswear Fashion Show Fundraiser

Date: 04 08 1964
Description: Scout troop #399 members Donna Walker and Kris Anderson (left) get instruction from an unnamed woman (right) shown in the foreground in silhouette.
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Odanah Indian Fair

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated group portrait of men, women and children posing at the fairgrounds at Odanah. Most of the people are Native Americans, probably Ojibwe, with a nu...
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Hillside Block Unit — Midget Unit Christmas Party

Date: 1957
Description: A group of smiling children posing with three adults. They are standing behind a table covered with baked goods, and Christmas decorations are on the wall ...
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Christmas Party, Home Nursing Neighbors

Date: 1957
Description: Several women and children are standing and posing, with a Christmas tree behind them, and tables in front of them that have gifts on them. Caption reads: ...
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Henriette Brumder Birthday Celebration

Date: 04 02 1921
Description: Henriette Brandhorst Brumder, sitting in the center holding two of her infant grandchildren, posing with family members for a portrait on her 80th birthday...
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Deutscher Press Club

Date: 07 1906
Description: An informal group portrait of members of the Milwaukee Deutscher Press Club and others, taken at Villa Henriette (mistakenly labeled "Villa Brumder"), the ...
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Train Wreck

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o...
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Picnic

Date: 04 29 1934
Description: Mararet Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, far left, and her son Philip, third from left, join other friends or relatives gathered around a large fallen log ...
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At the Wedding

Date: 06 27 1906
Description: A large group of well-dressed men, women and children posing beside the small wood frame Von der Sump farmhouse. There is a canopy decorated with greenery ...
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Gathering at Turner's Grove

Date: 07 04 1904
Description: A crowd of men, women and children have gathered in a clearing in a wooded area for a July 4 celebration. Sunlight passing through an American flag highlig...

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