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Langlade County Short Course

Date: 1915
Description: Agricultural Extension representative explaining the operation of an incubator to the Boys Short Course in Langlade County.
Postcard

Mathew Joseph Coyle

Date: 1913
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mathew Joseph Coyle standing on an ornate chair, and wearing a large belt and tie.
Photograph

Two Portraits of a Young Ho-Chunk Man

Date: 1910
Description: Dual quarter-length studio portraits of George Hindsley (AhoShipKah) in front of a painted backdrop. George reportedly died in 1967, and was a member of Pe...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Wife and Children of Little Solder

Date: 1910
Description: Full-length studio group portrait of a Ho-Chunk family in front of a painted backdrop. Mary Littlesoldier (HoUpTchooJayWinKah), left, is sitting with her d...
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Confirmation Ceremony

Date: 1910
Description: Twins Marie Johanna and Friedrich Wilhelm Ginnow pose in front of a decorated altar on their confirmation day. This was the last confirmation class at the ...
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Studio Portrait Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family. Sitting (l to r) Will Thunder (NaKikSayWaHeKah) (son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [W...
Photograph

Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1917
Description: Studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing contemporary dark skirts and light blouses. Id...
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Studio Portrait of Two Young Ho-Chunk Men and Ho-Chunk Woman

Date: 1910
Description: Mary Goodvillage Hindsley (ChoWasSkaWinKah) is sitting in front of Henry Hindsley (MaHePeWinKah), left, and Henry Badsoldier Stacy (MonNawPaeSheSheckKaw). ...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Boys

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk boy posing sitting, and two boys standing. The young man sitting is holding a a package wrappe...
Photograph

Two Young Ho-Chunk Men

Date: 1910
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk men posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop wearing suit coats and caps. The man on the left is wearin...
Photograph

Minors in a Saloon Dance Hall

Date: 05 03 1914
Description: A group of people, including minors, in a saloon dance hall at 2 a.m. in Milwaukee. The dance hall, Vizey's Hall, was on 8th Street and Walnut. Liquor was ...
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Girl Splicing Rope

Date: 1915
Description: Girl standing at work bench with a length of rope. Original caption reads: "Cleo Holt spliced her father's hay rope."
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Students Making a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two young boys on the floor of a room, probably a classroom, nailing mesh screening to the frame of their fly trap.
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Students Making Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys construct fly traps in a Morton Grove School classroom.
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Students Making Stenciled Charts

Date: 02 1916
Description: Young students making stenciled charts with teacher J.W. Page at the Morton Grove School. Original caption reads: "Another view of a school making junior c...
Photograph

Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.
Postcard

Miriam Bennett

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of Miriam Bennett in front of a painted backdrop with postcard conventions on back.
Photograph

Boys Learning to Sew

Date: 1913
Description: Boys learning to sew. Original caption reads: "Sewing Lesson for Boys of the 7th and 8th grades. These boys are learning how to sew on buttons."
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Studio Portrait of Miriam Bennett

Date: 1915
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Miriam Bennett, wearing a scarf tie.
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Group Dressed as Hobos

Date: 1913
Description: Young men and women standing on a platform in a school gymnasium dressed as hobos for a "Hobo" party at Woldale Rural School. A basketball hoop is in the b...

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