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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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Dreams Come True

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Description: Advertisement for International Harvester refrigerators and freezers. Depicts a woman wearing an apron over a dress standing near a freezer and refrigerato...
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Woman in Kitchen

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Description: Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor.
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Family in Hats

Date: 1878
Description: A large group of people sitting around a table in the yard. The men and women are wearing hats. The table has a large piece of ornamental glassware on it. ...
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Family having Coffee outside House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi...
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Osage Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Black Bow's wife, with infant in a papoose, and Saucy Chief's squaw.
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Osage Woman and Child

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an Osage woman carrying a small child on her back.
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Osage Women and Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Osage women holding children on their backs in infant carriers, with a young girl sitting between the...
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Twin Osage Papooses

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Description: A woman stands behind twin Osage papooses in a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The infants are tightly wrapped up. This image comes from an...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Four members of the University of Wisconsin Dames Club doing textile painting. Left to right are Mrs. William E. Peterson (standing), chairman of the grou...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Three women looking at an exhibit at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week, showing room furnishing revolving around rural paintings. Pictured lef...
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Women Posing with Household Articles

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Description: Five women pose for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop with various household articles such as an iron, feather duster, platter, cup, pitcher,...
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Women with Household Articles

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Description: A studio portrait of six women posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are holding household items including an iron, knife, potato, dustpan, broom, pi...
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Portrait of Two Women Wearing Aprons

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Description: Two women stand for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing aprons over their long dresses and are holding hands.
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Women Posing with Household Items

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Description: Studio portrait of two women sitting in front of three standing women, all holding household items, including: pie, iron, cup, towel, platter, and glasses....
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Studio Portrait of the Windblowe Sisters and Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman on the left is wearing regalia and the woman on...
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Studio Portrait of the Windblow Sisters and Infant

Date: 1909
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman sitting on the left is wearing rega...
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Portrait of Julia Maddock Wearing Ho-Chunk Dress

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Description: Studio portrait of a European American girl posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop, holding a Ho-Chunk cradle board with a china-headed doll. She is...
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Painting of a Cook

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Description: Amateur painting by Eleanor R. Craighill. Representing a woman in an apron and hat polishing(?) a pot in front of the kitchen fireplace in the Governor's P...
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Madison Theater Guild's Costume Designer Loie

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: Pictured is the Madison Theater's Guild's costume designer who uses only the name Loie.

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