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Filter: Subject of Weddings
Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People attending a wedding reception, posing outdoors. They are standing in front of a modern house that has a log cabin attached to the back. In the backg... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of farmyard with carriages, buggies and people. There is a wedding party in the front left corner. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | View of church interior looking up the aisle towards an altar decorated with garlands, possibly for a wedding. A young man stands at the left of the altar.... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wedding party outdoors on the lawn at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages are in the background. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Wedding at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Dining room decorated with streamers for a wedding reception. The table is set formally with candles and there is a wedding cake as a centerpiece. |
| Date: | 12 05 1898 |
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| Description: | Wedding party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Proudfit on their fifteenth anniversary. |
| Date: | 12 05 1898 |
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| Description: | The fifteenth anniversary party of Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Proudfit, Madison, Wisconsin. All guests wore their own wedding clothes. Seated on floor, left to ... |
| Date: | 03 05 1889 |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite of Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) dressed as a bridesmaid for the wedding of her brother Cyrus McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936) t... |
| Date: | 1847 |
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| Description: | An unhappy looking bride is seated in a chair looking out the window as another woman sits on the floor holding her hand. A third woman looks on angrily. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card photograph by Scholl of Philadelphia of the actors Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew who married in December 1879. Successful actors, their c... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Wedding party at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Ethelinda Marie (Thorsen) Johnston (1856-1947) in her wedding gown. She was married in Milwau... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Studio wedding portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) and Kunigunde (Dorn) Willms (1857-1941) in their wedding outfits. Ku... |
| Learn about charivari, or shivaree, the 19th-century custom of harrassing newlyweds, often on their wedding night. |
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| Silver ladle and spoon given to Syndonia (Hobbins) Jackson of Madison, Wisconsin as a wedding present, 1872. (Museum object #1955.304,A) |
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| Golden-brown silk gown worn by Miss Mary Dittberner at her 1887 wedding to Bernhard Stieg in Clintonville, Wisconsin. (Museum object #2008.129.1A-B) |
| Date: | 10 26 1887 |
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| Description: | Menu card for the wedding dinner of Jacob Black and Belle Mandelbaum at the Palmer House, with blind embossed type for "Menu," an embossed silver bell and ... |
| Date: | 11 19 1873 |
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| Description: | Nina Lynn Sturgis and Hercules Louis Dousman's wedding announcement, "At Home" card and envelope with an "S" and a "D" intertwined on the flap. The ceremon... |
| Date: | 09 02 1897 |
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| Description: | Interior of the John A. Landfair home, showing floral decorations for the wedding of Kate Landfair and Marvin B. Rosenberry, later Chief Justice of the Sup... |
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