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Postcard

Stephen and Clara Medhurst Willingham Chilton

Date: 12 25 1934
Description: Holiday postcard featuring a photograph of Stephen Chilton and Clara Medhurst Willingham Chilton, grandparents of Aunt Clara Bewick Colby.
Photograph

Oshkosh Baseball Team

Date: 1887
Description: A studio group portrait of the Oshkosh baseball team, "The Famous Team of 1887". All the players are wearing formal suits rather than baseball uniforms. In...
Postcard

Hayward Indian School Students

Date: 1889
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of five Hayward Indian School students, possibly a basketball team, from L to R: John C...
Print

How To Sit For Your Photograph

Date: 
Description: An advertisement on the back of a carte-de-visite that describes "How to sit for your Photograph."
Photograph

Peter Schuster Family

Date: 1870
Description: A family portrait of the Peter Schuster Family in front of a painted backdrop.
Print

School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
Postcard

H.H. Bennett Studio

Date: 1918
Description: Interior view of the H.H. Bennett Studio — Souvenir Department. Framed photographs are hung along the walls, and banners are hanging from the rafters. A po...
Postcard

Lake Mills Concert Band

Date: 1906
Description: Studio group portrait of the Lake Mills Concert Band posing with their instruments; trombones, tubas, clarinets, bass drum, etc. Caption reads: "Lake Mills...
Book or Pamphlet

Invitation

Date: 07 1964
Description: The cover of an invitation to a family gathering to commemorate the one hundredth anniversay of the wedding, in July 1864, of George (1839-1910) and Henrie...
Photograph

Henriette Brandhorst Brumder

Date: 1900
Description: A copy of a seated, three-quarter length studio portrait of Henriette Brandhorst Brumder (1841-1924). She is wearing a dark dress with embroidered trim, a ...
Photograph

Miss Laura M. Cornelius

Date: 1911
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Laura M. Cornelius. She is wearing a long coat and a hat with flowers.
Photograph

Ellen Gokey

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait of a man who is a member of the Lac Courte Oreilles band of the Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe). He is wearing a feathered headdress, a bea...
Photograph

Joseph Addison

Date: 
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait reproduction of English essayist and politician Joseph Addison, co-founder of The Spectator magazine.
Print

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh

Date: 1874
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of a reproduction of a painted portrait of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, with his wife Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Rus...
Photograph

Captain Pliney Alford

Date: 1856
Description: Vignetted waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Pliney [some sources spell it "Pliny"] Alford, a riverboat captain on the Mississippi River. Caption reads: ...

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