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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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Unidentified Woman with Infant

Date: 1848
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated woman in a long-sleeve printed dress and shoulder-length side curls, holding a sleeping baby on her lap with her righ...
Photograph

Nettie McCormick and Son Robert

Date: 1864
Description: Oval-framed portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), and her son Robert (1863-1865). Nettie, a well-known philanthropist, was the wife of Chicago i...
Postcard

Mother and Child

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Description: Studio portrait of mother and child in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is seated and wearing a black dress, the toddler is standing and dressed in w...
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Belle Case and Fola La Follette

Date: 1886
Description: Belle Case La Follette posed with her daughter Fola.
Postcard

Mother and Children

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of an unidentified mother and her two children. The children both wear white dresses. They are posed in front of...
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Portrait of Marie Big Hawk and Her Baby

Date: 1936
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Marie Big Hawk Whitewater, holding her baby Clyde White in her lap in front of a painted background. She has shoulder ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman wearing a hat over shoulder-length hair and wearing a winter coat over a dress. She is s...
Photograph

Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 1887
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and they are ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Mother and Son

Date: 1894
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and a Ho-Chunk boy posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. Susie Kingswan (HeNuKah) ...
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Studio Portrait of Eliza Decorah Lowe and Daughter

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Eliza Decorah Lowe, posing sitting, with her daughter standing beside her, wearing what...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 1904
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and holding a small child in her lap front of a painted backdrop. Martha Lyons-Lowe Stacy (KaRaChoWinKah...
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Copy Photograph of Clara Kingsley Blackhawk and Son Andrew

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Description: Copy photograph of a waist-up studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia posing sitting, wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. She is wearing...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Kate Thunder and Mother

Date: 1891
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop wearing several necklaces, earrings, and a striped skirt. In her lap she ...
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Copy Photograph of Steve Waukon and His Mother

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing on the left in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a war club, and is wearing...
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Copy Photograph of Steve Waukon and His Mother

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man posing standing on the left in front of a painted backdrop. He is holding a war club, and is wearing...
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Portrait of Mary Caroline Adams and Child

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Mary Caroline Adams posing with one of her infant children cradled against her cheek.
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Portrait of Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of a woman sitting in a chair. She is wearing the dress fashionable around 1870.
Postcard

Margaret Pauhs Seated in a Chair

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Margaret Pauhs (also spelled Paus), identified on back of the photograph as "Mrs. Werner Esser's mother," in front of a pain...
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John Gilbert as a Baby with His Mother

Date: 1898
Description: Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ...

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