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The Orb Sisters
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Sisters Margarethe, left, and Catherine Orb posing for a full-length, standing portrait wearing matching dark floor-length gowns with fur-trimmed short sleeves and necklines. Both are wearing earrings and a long watch chain and watch.
1865
G. Schneider & Co.
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August and Margarethe Streb
1885
August Streb leans against a chair as he poses next to his wife, Margarthe Orb Streb, who is seated. He is wearing a suit and a watch chain. Margarethe is wearing an elaborately detailed gown and h...
Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait
December 5, 1961
Full-length portrait of Vel Phillips wearing a dark dress with matching elbow-length gloves and earrings. She is holding a light-colored clutch handbag. In the background is a television.
Emma Huck Seipp
1880
Full-length portrait of Emma Huck Seipp (1855-1891). She is standing and wearing a floor length sleeveless gown and opera length gloves. Emma was the first wife of William Conrad Seipp, whose fathe...
Catherine Seipp
1880
A full-length, seated cabinet card portrait of Catherine Orb Seipp wearing an elaborately detailed dress of heavy material. She is also wearing a bracelet, rings, drop earrings and a long chain nec...
Catherine Orb Seipp
1900
Three-quarter length studio portrait of Catherine Orb Seipp (1846-1920), widow of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp and owner of Black Point Estate. She is standing and is wearing a light-colored dress w...
Edna Ferber Portrait
1939
Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright, in a publicity portrait. She is looking directly into the camera and is wearing a dress with a frilled neckline and a string of pearls w...
