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Alice Cobb and Bernice Robinson

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Description: Alice Cobb (right) and Bernice Robinson (left), in front of the main school building.
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ...
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Group of Students

Date: 1905
Description: Group portrait of four women, seated in front of three men, all unidentified. The women wear high-collared white blouses and long dark skirts. The men wear...
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Three Women Gathering Food in Ceylon

Date: 1910
Description: Three women standing in a row. Two of the women are carrying food in baskets and pottery on their head. They are unclothed above the waist and wearing clot...
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Four People Carrying Packs

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo...
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Older Girl Styling Younger Girl's Hair

Date: 1910
Description: An older girl styling a younger girl's hair. Both girls are sitting on the floor wearing brightly colored blouses and skirts, and are barefoot. Both girls ...
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Portrait of an Unidentified Woman

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of an unidentified woman wearing a straw hat decorated with satin and a feather. She is wearing a light-colored tight-fitting...
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Four Women Wearing Feather Hats

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Description: Vignetted group portrait of four women standing closely in a row gazing at each other. The two women on the right stand in profile looking at the other two...
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Sybil Nash Playing the Piano

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Description: Sybil Nash, wearing a white blouse, sitting and playing the piano. Sybil Nash was a Hanks family friend.
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Potawatomi Couple

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American man and woman, identified only as Potawatomie [sic] Indians, posing in front of a log structure. The woman is wearing large earrings and ...
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Unidentified Boy and Girl

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Description: Sixth plate ambrotype of unidentified boy and girl, seated side by side, facing forward, with hands folded in laps. He is wearing a suit with striped vest,...
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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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Theresa Gambino Pfeiffer

Date: 2002
Description: Theresa Gambino Pfeiffer's 50th anniversary at Josie's Restaurant, 906 Regent Street. Names, left to right: Donna Dirienzo Skoug, Theresa Gambino Pfeiffer,...
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Confirmation Day

Date: 1920
Description: Edward John Brumder, third from left with boutonniere, and his sister, Henrietta Thekla "Pussy" Brumder, wearing a short white dress, posing with other fam...
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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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Horse Show

Date: 1930
Description: Walter Vail Johnston, left, posing with an unidentified woman and man near the grandstand at the Milwaukee Hunt Club Horse Show. The men are wearing suits ...
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At the Cabin

Date: 1956
Description: Marion Briggs (Mrs. Edward J.) Brumder, left, playing cards at a low table with Gladys Downey in a rustic cabin on Lake Julia. Knotty pine paneling covers ...
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Sunday on the Porch

Date: 1923
Description: Clifford Frederick Messinger is sitting on a swinging bed with his wife, Gertrude Merker Messinger. He is holding the comics section of a newspaper; Gertru...
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Flower Garden

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified woman posing among flowers in a border along the fenced tennis court near the summer home of Herbert P. Brumder at Pine Lake. She is wearin...
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Still from Circe the Enchantress

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Description: Circe (Mae Murray), Ballard Barrett (Charles Gerrard), and William Craig (William Haines) stand/sit underneath a water feature in a still from the 1924 fil...

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