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Portrait of Brooks McCormick

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Description: Portrait of Brooks McCormick sitting forward in a chair holding a gold pen in his hands. On the table in front of him is a red toy dump truck. A large map ...
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Portrait of Brooks McCormick

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Description: Portrait of Brooks McCormick sitting forward in a chair holding a gold pen in his hands. On the table in front of him is a red toy dump truck. A large map ...
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Toy Barn

Date: 1905
Description: The three Fargo children, from left, Stuart, Frank Jr. and Dorothy are posing with a toy barn made of wooden boxes. Dorothy is reading a magazine. There is...
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Stuart on Rocking Horse

Date: 1903
Description: Stuart Fargo poses while sitting on a large rocking horse in front of a folding screen. He is wearing a top hat and striped shirt.
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Chimney Corners

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Description: Jackson Turner Main standing in front of "Chimney Corners" holding a butterfly net. He is the grandson of Frederick Jackson Turner, University of Wisconsin...
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Playing Roy Rogers

Date: 1951
Description: Three boys are dressed in cowboy hats, gloves, boots, and t-shirts featuring Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger. One boy is holding a toy pistol on the other...
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Play Gunfight

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Description: Seven children, some wearing hats and holding toy guns, playing outdoors at a gunfight. One child is hiding behind a tree stump, another child is hiding be...
Poster

Le Beau Régiment (No. 1)

Date: 1914
Description: Poster with an illustration depicting rows of German soldiers marching forward. One officer is sitting on a toy horse on wheels that is being pulled by a s...
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Baby Paul Arms

Date: 1964
Description: Paul Arms as an infant sitting on an ottoman with a toy on his lap at Lewis Arms' house at 847 Williamson Street. An adult is partially visible on the left...
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Arms Child with Jack-O-Lantern

Date: 10 1966
Description: One of Lewis Arms's children (most likely Paul Arms) is wearing a Halloween mask and holding a jack-o-lantern. He is standing in front of a rocking horse o...
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Holt and Stroh Families on the Front Steps

Date: 1896
Description: The Holt and Stroh families are sitting together on the front steps of the Holts' home. On the left, W.A. Holt is holding his daughter Jeannette with her d...
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Christmas Display

Date: 1925
Description: A tall Christmas tree, a cut-out Santa, and a dollhouse dominate a holiday display in front of the bay window in the dining room of Herbert Paul and Margar...
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Barbara Brumder

Date: 08 30 1922
Description: Barbara Brumder (1918-2017) posing on her fourth birthday with a bouquet of flowers tucked in her right arm. She is holding two packages in her left hand a...
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Christmas Presents

Date: 12 1923
Description: Herbert Edmund Brumder is sitting on the floor holding the halyard of a large toy sailboat which is resting on a stand. On the floor in front of him are a ...
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Christmas Eve

Date: 12 24 1923
Description: A large Christmas tree fills the bay window in the dining room of Herbert P. and Margaret Brumder. There are Christmas gifts arranged around the tree, and ...
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Birthday Boy

Date: 11 22 1923
Description: Philip George Brumder, sitting in a high chair on the left, and his sister Barbara, sitting on the right, watch intently as their mother, Margaret Bouer (M...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1924
Description: A tall, lighted Christmas tree stands in the dining room of the Herbert P. Brumder family residence, 2030 East Lafayette Place. Glass ornaments and tinsel ...
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Doug DeWitt at the Drums

Date: 1942
Description: Doug DeWitt is sitting behind the drums. The words "Rhythm Wreckers" are printed on the drum face. Behind Doug DeWitt, on a shelf, are several things: a re...
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Philip in Bed

Date: 1924
Description: Philip George Brumder, son of Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder, resting in a hospital crib holding a stuffed dog and a doll. His cheeks are swollen....
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1924
Description: An electrically lit Christmas tree standing near the bow window in the living room of Herbert and Margaret Brumder, 2030 East Lafayette Place. An abundance...

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