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Joe Fedele Receives Badge

Date: 10 17 1932
Description: Captain Leo Kinney, Captain of Detectives, pinning a detective's badge on Joe Fedele, member of Post's Junior Detective Club, an organization sponsored by ...
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Middleton High School Basketball Players

Date: 01 13 1931
Description: Middleton High School basketball players Thomas, in basketball uniform, and Amborn, wearing a suit, posing indoors.
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Richard M. Nixon

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of highschool student, Richard M. Nixon, from the Whittier High School Annual.
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Family in front of House

Date: 1869
Description: A family sits around a table in a yard. One woman holds a stereoscope in her lap. Behind them is a frame house with shutters on some of the windows, and a ...
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Carl and Roy Linnell

Date: 1895
Description: Two young men, Carl and Roy Linnell, standing on either side of a wooden chair supporting a mounted buck's head with antlers. They are wearing dark suit ja...
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A Portrait of Nils Dahl

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Description: Oval portrait of Nils Dahl taken by his brother Andreas Dahl.
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Child Salon of Art Winner with John Steuart Curry

Date: 05 07 1944
Description: John Steuart Curry, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, and Wesley Kanuse with his painting of his brother, Kendall Kanuse. Kanuse won the major a...
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Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson

Date: 08 13 1945
Description: Elizabeth Johnson and Hobart Johnson. Elizabeth will be attending the Potter School in Tucson, Arizona. Hobart will return to the Middlesex School in Conco...
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Stoughton Home Talent League Champions

Date: 11 01 1945
Description: Curtis Strand and Roundy Coughlin, the speaker at the banquet of the Stoughton Home Talent League champion baseball team.
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Portrait of a Young Boy

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Description: A young boy poses in a costume from the late nineteenth century, while sitting on a small chair.
Postcard

Young Boy with Tricycle

Date: 1908
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young boy with a tricycle.
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Studio Portrait of Woman and Boy

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Description: An elderly woman in a long, dark dress stands with a young boy in a suit jacket, necktie, vest, a short pants for a studio portrait near a low stone wall i...
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Boy on His Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of a boy on the occasion of his graduation. He is dressed in jacket and knickerbockers (knickers) and holds a ro...
Postcard

Viola and Clarence Joss Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of Viola and Clarence Joss on the occasion of their graduation. Each of them holds a rolled diploma in their lef...
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Studio Portrait of a Young Man

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a seated young man wearing a suit jacket, necktie, and vest. There is a tie pin or charm attached to his ...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Males

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk males posing sitting and leaning against a prop stone wall. Probably John Blackh...
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Cyrus McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1875
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936) at about age sixteen, wearing a necktie and suit jacket.
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Studio Portrait of Ulysses White

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Description: Studio portrait of a young Ho-Chunk man, Ulysses White, posing standing and leaning on a prop stone column in front of a painted backdrop.
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1892
Description: Full-length studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men. The man on the left, Frank C. Thunder (Hoonk Ta Ka Kah), is wearing streamers over his shoulders and...
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Studio Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men. Both men are wearing hats. The man sitting on the left, Simon Robert Littlesoldier (Wo No Ka Re Hunk Kah) (Son o...

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