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Woman with Blender

Date: 03 18 1955
Description: Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Helen Schleck

Date: 09 26 1932
Description: Helen Schleck (Mrs. Mathias H.), standing beside a radio, is a Dane County pioneer celebrating her 86th birthday, 1201 Sherman Avenue.
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Mrs. Damiani and Daughters

Date: 06 04 1931
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Damiani with her daughters, Josephine and Elaine, arrested with her husband who was charged with passing counterfeit bills.
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Lillian Rice at Police Station

Date: 01 30 1931
Description: Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ...
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Brickson Booth at ESBMA Fall Festival

Date: 09 11 1929
Description: Obert H. Brickson, Jeweler, booth at East Side Business Men's Association (ESBMA) Fall Festival. The booth is featuring Sangamo, Hamilton watches and clock...
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Group Portrait of Three Women and a Child

Date: 08 02 1927
Description: Portrait of three women and a child for Mrs. Dowling of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Crowning of Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1952
Description: Beverly Ann Steffen of Appleton is crowned the 1952 Alice in Dairyland.
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Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
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Portrait of Old Lady

Date: 11 30 1930
Description: Copy of a portrait of an old woman, taken for Mrs. Dean.
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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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Irene Castle in "Patria"

Date: 1917
Description: Irene Castle in a gauzy tulle and satin dress in a full-length pose in a publicity photograph for the silent film "Patria" (International 1917).
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Vel Phillips Speaking with Arthur Goldberg

Date: 04 08 1961
Description: Vel Phillips stands while speaking with Arthur Goldberg, former Secretary of Labor and, at the time of the photograph, Supreme Court Justice. Another man c...
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Woman Working in Insurance Office

Date: 11 19 1927
Description: Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
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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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Studio Portrait of Unidentified European American Girl

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a European American girl with blond hair posing sitting. She is wearing a dark-colored dress.
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Conrad and Anne Petersen

Date: 11 17 1951
Description: Conrad William and Kathryn Anne (Reebie) Petersen pose for a full length portrait on their wedding day in Winnetka, Illinois. The bride wears a long satin ...
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Studio Group Portrait of Unidentified European American Family

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Description: Studio group portrait of a family, including a man, two women, and a girl.
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Vel Phillips Fashion Portrait

Date: 12 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Vel Phillips sitting and posing for a fashion shoot. She is wearing a dark outfit with a fur-lined coat. She has a handbag on her right arm and...

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