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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
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Ruth Holt with Mother

Date: 07 23 1934
Description: Portrait of Ruth Holt holding golf club, at the Nakoma golf course, age 10. She was the youngest player in the Junior Qualifying Round of the Wisconsin Wom...
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Portrait of a Girl

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Description: Waist-up portrait of girl with ringlets, and a belt at her waist with an ornate clasp.
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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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Nellie Grant

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Description: Studio portrait of Nellie Grant, daughter of Ulysses S. Grant, seated in a chair.
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Helen Hall, Youth Hostel Secretary

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: Helen Hall, secretary at the Youth Hostel headquarters on the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road, near Shorewood Hills.
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Maple Bluff Co-eds

Date: 08 21 1948
Description: Two young co-eds from Maple Bluff, soon to leave for their universities. Pictured sitting on a stone retaining wall outside are from the left: Janet Huiska...
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Two Shorewood Hills Preparatory School Women

Date: 08 21 1948
Description: Two young women from Shorewood Hills soon to leave for preparatory school. Pictured siting outside on a patio from the left are: Rosamond Ross, National Ca...
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Magdalina Sara Jungck, as a School Teacher

Date: 1905
Description: Magdalina Sara Jungck, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a school teacher, lashing a boy student over a desk. Part of a yearbo...
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Portrait of Two Women and a Girl

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Description: A studio portrait of two women and a young girl, in front of a painted backdrop. The young girl wears a hat and coat and holds a pair of mittens in her lap...
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Studio Portrait of Woman and Girl

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Description: A woman in a long dress sits on a low fence, and a girl in a knee-length dress stands next to her for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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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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Elderly Woman with Young Girl

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Description: An elderly woman sits with a young girl holding a doll for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The woman wears an elaborately decorated coat ...
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Girl with Hair Bow

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of Gertie Haber with a bow in her hair and her hands at her side. She wears a pleated skirt and is standing in f...
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Portrait of Woman and Girl

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Description: A seated woman holds a book in her lap while a young girl stands behind her, both posing for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop.
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Woman and Child

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Description: A studio portrait of a seated woman wearing a hat and a young girl leaning towards her in front of a painted backdrop.
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Jessa's Last Co-Op Workday

Date: 2006
Description: Portrait of a woman, Jessa, with a red and black tattoo on her arm, posing in front of a white wall. Taken during her last day working at a La Crosse food ...
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Woman Holding Small Girl on Her Lap

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Description: A woman wearing a hat, blouse, and long skirt sits in profile in a studio with a small girl wearing a white dress on her lap. They are in front of a studio...
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Group Portrait of Native Americans

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Description: A studio portrait of a group of Native Americans. A woman in a dress holds an infant in her lap, a man stands behind her, and two young men, one standing a...
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Wisconsin Women's Golf Association Tournament

Date: 07 12 1949
Description: Sixteen-year old Peggy Kral of Shawano Lake's Shalagoco Golf Club, a possible contender for junior honors in the Wisconsin Women's Association tournament, ...

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