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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: | Outdoor portrait of Wesley Barton, founder of Barton (now Burr), Corners. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Lewis Arms sitting on a sled in the snow at his uncle Otis Arms's farm, Hillsboro (Vernon Co.), Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Otis Arms, uncle of Lewis Arms, poses in front of an automobile. He is dressed in a suit. |
| Date: | 04 1957 |
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| Description: | LuRay Arms and Otis Arms tending a fire while making maple syrup outdoors. |
| Date: | 04 1957 |
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| Description: | Three men from the Arms family making maple syrup outdoors. From left to right are: Lewis, Bernard, and Otis Arms. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Shard and Sherman Waldon, twin brothers from the Cheyenne Valley settlement. |
| Date: | 06 02 1975 |
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| Description: | A group portrait taken at the home of Alga Shivers. In front, from left to right, are: Alga Shivers (in overalls), his wife Flora Shivers, Minnie Drake, an... |
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| Date: | 05 17 1905 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of students and teachers of an integrated class at Eastman School. They are posing in front of the schoolhouse, and a flag is displa... |
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