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Perry and Elsie Horton with Dogs

Date: 1937
Description: Perry and Elsie Horton, parents of Myles Horton, with fox hounds, at Highlander Folk School.
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Alice Kent Trimpey

Date: 1930
Description: A portrait of the photographer's wife, Alice Kent Trimpey, sitting. Mrs. Trimpey was an authority on antiques and antique dolls.
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Whirling Thunder St. Croix Indian

Date: 1930
Description: Saint Croix Ojibwa man, bare-chested, wearing a feather war bonnet.
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Ojibwa Shooting Arrow

Date: 1935
Description: Ojibwa man shooting an arrow at the sky. The man is wearing buckskin leggings, a beaded apron, and porcupine roach. Two arrows are stuck in the ground besi...
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Chief Gogeoweosh (Sailing Home Once In A While)

Date: 1935
Description: Bad River Ojibwa Chief Gogeweosh (Sailing Home Once in a While). Chief Gogeweosh is wearing a feather war bonnet and a buckskin shirt with a beaded ...
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Chief Gogeoweosh

Date: 1935
Description: Bad River Ojibwe Chief Gogeoweosh (Sailing Home Once in a While). Chief Gogeoweosh is wearing a woven vest over a shirt and a bead and feather war b...
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Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.
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Professor Perry Holden

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Perry Holden standing outdoors in a tweed overcoat and fedora. Holden was in charge of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Departmen...
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Annie Nunns

Date: 1940
Description: Portrait of Annie Amelia Nunns.
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Chicog

Date: 1920
Description: Portrait of Chicog seated cross-legged on the ground holding a bow. There are snowshoes in the foreground.
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Harvey J. Stangel

Date: 1932
Description: Portrait of Harvey Jacob Stangel (1903-2004), secretary-treasurer of the J.J. Stangel Hardware Company, seated at his desk. His father, Jacob J. Stangel, e...
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Daniel Allender

Date: 1909
Description: Oval-framed quarter-length portrait of Daniel Allender, of Northport. He was identified in 1909 as the first white boy born in Milwaukee, on April 14, 1838...

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