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| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A model posed as an angel sits on the ground in front of a sylvan backdrop, warming her hands over a fire. She wears wings and a dress of diaphanous materi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Jennie Rooney, performer and aerialist with the Ringling Brothers Circus, poses in a sequined costume and tights with a net butterfly in her hair. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait, presumably of Brad Robinson, his son and grandson. The eldest wears a badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, identifying him as a Civ... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Governor Lucius Fairchild, and his wife, Frances (Bull) Fairchild. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two hunters, Jacob Gross, sitting and holding a lantern, and Henry Herold, standing and holding a rifle a... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Composite layout combining family portraits with local views. Probably the family of Gerhard Gesell in Alma. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a woman sitting in a chair. She is wearing the dress fashionable around 1870. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Mrs. Merkle, wearing a frilly white dress with lace at hem, cuffs, and neckline. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of draperies and a painted backdrop of a young woman wearing a full-length white dress with a lacy bodice and a pastel... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of draperies of a man standing in a tuxedo and white shirt and tie, with his hands crossed behind his back. |
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| Description: | Full-length portrait of an older woman in front of a painted backdrop of books on bookshelves. She is wearing a white dress with lace at the wrists, and is... |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a backdrop of a woman wearing an elaborate light-colored dress standing with one hand behind her back on a patterne... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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). |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A young girl posing in Native American costume with bow and arrow in a studio. The image was likely used as a model for an advertising artist. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Actor John Gilbert as a baby with his mother. She is lying on the floor on her stomach, resting on her elbows with her head up. Her knees are bent and her ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of actor John Gilbert wearing a tuxedo. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men posed standing in the gate of a wooden fence. |
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