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Eskimos Catching Crabs

Date: 1930
Description: Wenga and Amutuk catching crabs in the Arctic.
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: A holiday postcard depicting the traditional image of St. Nicholas walking on foot garbed in a long green robe and carrying a bunch of switches for naughty...
Postcard

A Happy Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus with a walking stick, carrying a sack and holding a Christmas tree on his shoulder. He is in front of a snow-covered hous...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Charles Greencrow and Belle Blackhawk

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man and woman posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a suit jacket, shirt with wat...
Photograph

Fashionable Woman

Date: 1930
Description: A fashionably dressed woman with a fur stole around her shoulders relaxes on a lounge chair.
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Dora Thunderking Lowe and Jennie Youngthunder Decorah

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Ho-Chunk women posing standing. They are wearing winter coats with fur collars. Identifie...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Amanda Bighawk and Marie Bighawk Whitewater and Daughters

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Amanda Bighawk posing sitting holding her son Calvin Smith-Whitewater, and a Ho-Chunk w...
Photograph

Portrait of Magda Herzberger as a Child

Date: 1930
Description: Magda Moses Herzberger standing in front of foliage in a light-colored dress with her left hand positioned on her hip. Location identified as a resort in ...
Photograph

Portrait of Robert Sine Jr., and Unidentified Boy

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of Ho-Chunk men, in front of a painted backdrop. Robert Sine Jr. on the left, and an unidentified boy on the right, are posing standing and...
Photograph

Jennie Rooney Reclining

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman poses reclining and reading a magazine. She wears a bangled costume, tights, and dance slippers.
Photograph

Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A woman poses with a mirror and powder puff. She wears a bangled costume and dance slippers.
Photograph

Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
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.
Postcard

A Happy Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard of a boy and a girl, arm in arm. He is dressed in a green outfit with a green cloak with a gold lining, gold gloves and a green hat. She i...
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child...
Postcard

A Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a father and mother seated in chairs watching their baby play with a ball. A decorated Christmas tree is in the background. Other toy...
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1930
Description: Inside of holiday card depicting a family tree. The family photographs are positioned over a pine tree covered with snow. At the bottom is a cartoon of San...
Print

To You

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card with a stylish woman taking a letter from her Scottie dog's mouth. She is wearing a red dress with a white bow and cuffs, and black high heels...
Photograph

Dressed to the Nines

Date: 1930
Description: Irene Steinkopf, motion picture editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel, dressed in a floor-length gown for an evening on the town.
Photograph

Portrait of a Woman

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length portrait of a young woman sitting on a half wall inside the photographer's studio. She is wearing a fashionable dress with a ribbon belt, dark ...
Postcard

Man in Overalls

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a man posing in front of a painted backdrop. He has one hand on his hip and is wearing striped overalls and a hat.

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