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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Twin Infants in Coffins

Date: 1886
Description: Studio portrait of deceased twin infants in coffins. They are Robert and Janet Fitzpatrick, born July 5, 1885, died April 20, 1886, children of Robert and ...
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Infant with Grandmother

Date: 1950
Description: A young child examines a children's book with her grandmother.
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Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
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Bath Time for Baby

Date: 1900
Description: A baby sits in a galvanized tub holding on to the sides. The tub is on top of a chair with a can of talcum powder next to it.
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George Henry Williams

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a portrait of George Henry Williams (deceased child at 18 months), son of Henry C. and Diana T. Williams, and may be the cousi...
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Baby Sitting at Child's Training Desk

Date: 09 29 1945
Description: Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed.
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Isabel B. La Follette and Daughter

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: Two-week-old Isabel B. La Follette, held by her mother Isabel La Follette.
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Woman & Baby

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
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Mr. & Mrs. Archie Parkins with Baby

Date: 01 09 1935
Description: Arthur Parkins, Jr. holding surviving newborn twin baby, John Archie Parkins, following the death of twin baby James Burton Parkins. His wife Kathryn is ly...
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Chris Copus Family

Date: 10 29 1934
Description: Portrait of seven of the twelve members of the Chris Copus family standing beside a pot belly stove in their makeshift garage home on Roth Street. They wer...
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Joseph Oden La Follette and His Grandmother

Date: 11 16 1933
Description: Joseph Oden La Follette, the son of Senator Robert La Follette, Jr., being held by his maternal grandmother, Harriet Oden of Washington, D.C.
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Hans Anderson Family

Date: 01 24 1932
Description: Group portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Anderson, Morningside Heights, and their 14 children.
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David Webster Jr.

Date: 11 21 1931
Description: David Webster Jr. in playpen with toys.
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Lois Kerl's Three Children

Date: 09 11 1931
Description: Portrait of Lois Kerl's three children: one daughter is sitting and holding a baby, and the second daughter is standing on the right in front of the firepl...
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Man with Baby

Date: 08 10 1931
Description: William Busse, humane officer, holding abandoned baby, Bobby LaBue (real name Bobby Yarborough of Spokane Washington).
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Ibenthal Family

Date: 01 01 1929
Description: Three generations of the Ibenthal family posing for a portrait.
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Julia Ormsby Bathing Baby

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Description: A woman bathing an infant on her lap, probably Julia (Murray) Ormsby.
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Woman and Baby

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Description: A woman in a light top and dark skirt tending to a baby propped on a chair wearing a long white gown. A parlor stove is on the right, and tapestries are ha...

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