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| Date: | 02 17 1901 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Susan Frackelton, sitting at a table painting a bowl and surrounded by her art work and a large medal. Caption on back reads: "Mrs. Susa... |
| Date: | 12 25 1934 |
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| Description: | Holiday postcard featuring a photograph of Stephen Chilton and Clara Medhurst Willingham Chilton, grandparents of Aunt Clara Bewick Colby. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Isabel Bacon La Follette, familiarly known as Isen, taken about one year before her graduation from the University of Wisconsin. She ma... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young girl, clothed in a winter coat, bonnet, and muff, with fake snow on the ground and falling all around her. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Salvator Moshe in a custom-made suit, which he paid for with cigarettes, chocolate, and coffee; Weilheim, German... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Marjorie and Floyd Quinney. |
| Date: | 08 1914 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an 85-year-old Ho-Chunk man, White Rabbit Longtail, posing standing and smiling while pretending to scalp his friend, C.A. L... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Anna Chapman Dunn (Mrs. Morrill). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American boy dressed in the costume of a stereotypical newsboy. The child holds up a newspaper in one hand and holding a stac... |
| Date: | 10 31 1912 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of two sisters posed with a guitar and a mandolin in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing dresses, and one sister has a lace... |
| Date: | 06 1921 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio graduation portrait of Genevieve Milward (later McVicar), (1902-1987) of Madison, Wisconsin, standing in front of a painted backdrop. Sh... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Emma Schmitt (the future Mrs. Sherwin Gillett) and her sister Elena. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a young boy standing on a stool with his hands behind his back. He is wearing a tunic, or Buster Brown suit, striped stockin... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Seated studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop, retouched, of J.H. Denison. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Unidentified lady, seated, wearing an off-the-shoulder short-sleeved ballgown, which appears to have fur decorating the collar and shoulders. She is restin... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Lina Hveem, mother of Odva Haug, seated in a chair and wearing Norwegian costume for 17th May, just after arriving in the United St... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Fern L. Reinhardt. She is wearing her uniform, cap and eyeglasses, and a pin on the collar front displaying a cross, and ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Dr. William F. Petersen (1887-1950). He is wearing a dark suit with a vest and necktie. Dr. Petersen, with his wife, Alm... |
| Date: | 07 1901 |
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| Description: | Standing full-length portrait of Henry Bartholomay forms the left half of a postcard. The message reads: "Love and Greetings from Your loving cousin Henry ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified Native American men, probably Ho-Chunk, posing for a seated, full-length studio portrait. Each is seated on a blanket and is shirtless. Th... |
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