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Boys in Oriental Costume

Date: 1930
Description: A group portrait of boys and young men in oriental costume and make-up. Most are holding opened hand fans.
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Philbrick Garage

Date: 1939
Description: An exterior view of the Philbrick Garage, a Ford dealership and Cities Service filling station located at 207 Third Avenue. A sign advertises Quaker State ...
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Risley Brothers Building

Date: 1944
Description: Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr...
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Fleet of Four Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: A fleet of four pickup trucks of various makes and a larger truck, all advertising L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating on the door. They are parked on a reside...
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Pete's Cafe

Date: 1940
Description: Pete Sprecher's Cafe and Bar on Water Street. A sign identifies the entrance to Pearl's Garden Dining Room. There are two benches and a penny weight machi...
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Automobile Dealerships

Date: 1945
Description: The Du Bois and Kieffer Hudson dealership, and Philbrick Motors, a Willys dealership, which shared a building at 137 Third Avenue. There is a Phillips 66 g...
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Scheible and Dyrud Funeral Home

Date: 1940
Description: View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,...
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Badger Army Ordnance Plant Housing

Date: 1945
Description: View from road of vines and flower boxes brightening an otherwise unremarkable row of barracks type housing. There is an A & P Food Store on the right, wit...
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Young Woman with Spinning Wheel

Date: 1940
Description: A seated young woman in a nineteenth century style dress poses with a tapestry or carpet bag and spinning wheel. A bonnet rests on an antiquer dresser beh...
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Jennie Rooney with Shell

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman stands holding a sea shell. She wears wings and is loosely wrapped in diaphanous cloth.
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Jennie Rooney Reclining

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses reclining and reading a magazine. She wears a bangled costume, tights, and dance slippers.
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Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A woman poses with a mirror and powder puff. She wears a bangled costume and dance slippers.
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Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses seated in front of a painted forest backdrop. She wears wings and is wrapped in a diaphanous material. On the left on the ground is a s...
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Woman at Keyboard

Date: 1920
Description: A woman in an old style dress stands in profile by a keyboard instrument, with her left knee resting on a Gothic Revival chair. A candle is burning in a br...
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Woman in Bonnet

Date: 1930
Description: A woman in old style dress with bonnet, cape and carpet bag, stands at a gate in a picket fence. There is an old house in the background.
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Madonna and Child

Date: 1930
Description: A studio portrait of a veiled woman and sleeping infant.
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Woman Knitting

Date: 1930
Description: An elderly woman in an old-fashioned dress sits and knits by a table in front of a painted backdrop.
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Woman with Basket

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses with a basket of flowers over one arm. She wears an old-fashioned costume and stands in front of a painted backdrop which mimics a ston...
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Woman and Child

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman in night cap and dressing gown holds an infant in a long white dress. She is seated on a Victorian settee.
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Alice Kent Trimpey with a Rose

Date: 1930
Description: The photographer's wife, dressed in embroidered oriental jacket and plumed hat, stands holding a rose.

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