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Hill's Dry Goods Store Interior

Date: 05 21 1933
Description: "Cotton Lane" in Hill's Dry Goods Store, 202 State Street, featuring two models, wearing dresses, standing in niches on either side of an arch, with the wo...
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Ada Bass

Date: 1890
Description: Ada Bass, wife of the photographer, standing in a room showing her long hair extending down her back.
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Ethel Steussy

Date: 07 30 1948
Description: Mrs. Robin (Ethel) Steussy, seated in a chair, is visiting Mrs. and Mrs. E.E. Steussy, 3847 Nakoma Road.
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Tim, 8, and Maureen, 6, listen quietly as their mother, Mrs. Mark Schaefer, reads a bedtime fairy tale at their home on Mineral Point Road. Mrs. Schaefer b...
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Madison Vocational and Adult School Award Winners

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Seven Madison Vocational and Adult Education school students who received awards for "exceptional records in attendance, achievement and effort" at the sch...
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Mrs. Frederick F. Kessenich and Son

Date: 06 12 1950
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Frederick F. Kessenich with her 3 year old son Peter.
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Family in Living Room

Date: 1910
Description: View of a family relaxing in the living room of their home. Features men, women, and children sitting around a table. Caption reads: "A Happy Home in Orogr...
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Patients Dining at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of patients in formal dress gathering around a long table for dinner at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bisho...
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Patients Dining at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: A group of patients in formal dress gathering around tables for dinner at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded by Bishop Salpointe. Windows and a set of door...
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Mrs. Steensland

Date: 1899
Description: Mrs. Halle Steensland poses seated in a rocking chair in the beautifully decorated sitting room in her house at 315 North Carroll Street. She appears to be...
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Forest Park Hotel Dining Room

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Description: Interior of a dining room at Forest Park Hotel, purchased by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union in the early 1900's. Women stand among tables ...
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Living Room at Wabanaki Lodge

Date: 1930
Description: View of the living room of Wabanaki Lodge, a log building with a rustic interior. The room features a large fireplace on the left wall, tables, and wicker...
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Dering's Living Room

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Description: Interior of Dering's living room. A woman sits in a chair looking at a dog that is lying on the rug. A fireplace is on the left, and the walls are lined wi...
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Woman in White

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of draperies and a painted backdrop of a young woman wearing a full-length white dress with a lacy bodice and a pastel...
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Bish Family

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Description: An older female member of the Bish family sits in a wicker chair holding a magazine or book open on her lap. Standing on the left in front of a doorway dra...
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Nelson Campaigning for Obey

Date: 03 1969
Description: Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson speaking to an audience in northern Wisconsin in behalf of the congressional campaign of David R. Obey who is seated to Ne...
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Portrait of Laura Graf

Date: 1960
Description: Portrait of Laura Graf seated in a chair at her home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. A bookcase is behind her. Laura was born September 2, 1898 in Pewaukee (Wa...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M...
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Henry C. and Johanna Knab Koch

Date: 1867
Description: Henry C. Koch and his wife, Johanna Knab Koch, pose for a formal studio portrait. Henry C. Koch was a German born architect that designed many Wisconsin sc...
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Mother and Family

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Description: View of wooden house and front yard, with a mother standing behind the screen door and four children standing together in the yard. A chair and a washtub a...

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