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| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Martha and Notley Henderson with their three children. Their son Allen is standing. The Hendersons were e... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of Mr. William W. Hendricks, a Black River Falls barber, dressed in his best, posing in front of a painted backdrop. |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of Sargeant Major Meekins. Co. "K" 36th U.S. Colored Troops. |
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| Description: | A carte-de-visite of a slave sitting with three children. The text at the bottom read: "Learning is Wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, & Rosa. Slaves from N... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American child (probably a girl) wearing a white dress. Text written on the back of the photog... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American woman in a formal dress seated on a sofa. Photograph was taken by Berdette E. Akin, w... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing beaded necklaces, long earrings, and are wrap... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of two young Ho-Chunk women posing sitting, wearing beaded necklaces and long earrings, and wrapped in shawls. Carrie Elk (ENooKah... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an African American man carrying a bushel basket full of cotton, location unknown. |
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| Description: | Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two African American agricultural workers picking cotton, location unknown. A little girl sits in a... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Portrait of a woman wearing a long dress and an apron. Text on photograph reads: "La Vieille." |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a three-quarter length view of an African American youth wearing a three-piece suit and a tie, in front of a painted backdrop. The image... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Woman in a long dress wearing a glove and holding a book [?] in her hand posing before a painted backdrop. There is a small white dog seated on a fur rug a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an African American family (probably Caroline Webb, Andrew Norris Webb Sr., and Andrew Norris Webb Jr.) in front of a painted backdrop. ... |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Shard and Sherman Waldon, twin brothers from the Cheyenne Valley settlement. |
| Date: | 06 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Modern tintype, full length, formal portrait, of Angela R. Davis, Development Officer, Wisconsin Historical Foundation. She is seated in a chair with her a... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ambrotype of an unidentified African-American man. Three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing forward, with torso turned slightly left, legs... |
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| Description: | Ninth plate ambrotype of unidentified African-American man. Three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing forward. He is wearing a jacket over which hang... |
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