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Minnie Beers

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of Minnie Beers, daughter of William and Agnes Beers. She is sitting and resting her arm on the arm of a cast iron chair. She is wearing ...
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Young Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking.
Postcard

Four Men Drinking Around a Table

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Description: Studio portrait of four well-dressed men posed around a table drinking beer in front of a painted backdrop.
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Edward Beers

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Edward Beers, facing forward, wearing a suit and double-breasted plaid vest and checked tie, with stand collar.
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Thomas Beers

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Thomas Beers, grandfather of Zona Gale Breese. Quarter-length portrait facing forward. He is wearing a wide collared suit coat...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
Postcard

Poker Players

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Description: Studio portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop playing poker while smoking and drinking beer. The man on the left is Jacob Birrenkott, and the m...
Postcard

Three Men Playing Cards

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of three men, seated at a table, playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Each man has a bottle of beer and one man smokes a cigar. Tw...
Postcard

Three Men Drinking

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three men, all seated in chairs around a table, drinking a beer from a bottle. The man on the right holds...
Photograph

Nellie Orms and Hattie Beers

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Description: Full-length ferrotype/tintype of Nellie Orms and Hattie Beers, Sunday school pupils of Lillian Luce Holt. The girl on the left is standing with her hand on...
Postcard

Portrait of Three Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three men in front of a painted backdrop. Two men are standing on either side of a man in the middle who is sitting in a cha...
Photograph

Three Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified white men dressed in bib overalls. One man is sitting in the center betwee...
Postcard

Two Men Playing Cards with Donkey

Date: 1930
Description: In a studio "gag" portrait, two men sit at a table playing cards in front of a painted backdrop. Both are showing their hands and smoking cigars. Each man ...
Postcard

Six Men and a Goat

Date: 1920
Description: Full-length studio portrait of six men, three standing and three sitting. On the left is a goat. Attached to the painted backdrop, a poster for the Calumet...
Postcard

Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
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Studio Portrait of the Olderboltz Family

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Description: Studio portrait of a seated elderly man and woman, surrounded by four seated women and four standing men. Probably the Ulrich Olderboltz family. Standing, ...

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