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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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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 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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Young Woman with Letter

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman sits on the floor, one arm resting on an open dresser drawer, gazing into the distance and holding a letter. She is wearing an old-fashioned ...
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Martha Schilling

Date: 1930
Description: An elderly woman in headscarf, checked dress and sweater, sits outdoors knitting. Identified as Martha Schilling, wife of Adam Rebholz from Portage, Wiscon...
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Mrs. Earl Baltes

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman identified as Mrs. Earl Baltes poses in nineteenth-century attire, seated on the floor with her arm resting on the open bottom drawer of an a...
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Alice Kent Trimpey

Date: 1930
Description: Hand-colored waist-up portrait of Alice Kent Trimpey, seated on a chair with an elaborately carved back. She is wearing nineteenth-century clothing consist...
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The Lost Chord

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 burns in a brass ca...
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Archie and Dorothea Johnson

Date: 04 16 1978
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing sitting on the steps in front of a door. The man has his arm around the woman's shoulder. Caption reads: "Archie and Dor...

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