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| Date: | 03 18 1920 |
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| Description: | Older factory worker standing in front of a pile of scrap parts in a factory yard, most likely at International Harvester's Osborne Works. |
| Date: | 01 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Three generations of the Ibenthal family posing for a portrait. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of Belle Case La Follette with her grandson, Robert La Follette Sucher. She is wearing a large hat and a coat with a fur collar and cuffs. It is... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923) holding her infant great-niece, Nancy Fowler Merle-Smith (b. 1921). Nettie is sitting in a wheelchair on a path, with s... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A older man and a young girl holding a doll are seated together on a porch swing for an outdoor portrait. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Frederick Jackson Turner poses with a gun in his hand outdoors at Hancock Point on Frenchman's Bay. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Edward J. Rickers with UW nightwatchman "Gramps," on a Lake Mendota outing. They are seated on the grass together with a picnic lunch and a campfire. There... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk woman, Mary Snowball Decorra Buffalohead (PayDokSeKah [Edge of brow is yellow]), sitting and holding a p... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man, Green Grass (HaWinChoKah). He is posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop, and is wearing a... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | E.W. Brandel, standing in a road. Known as Gramps by Mary Brandel, he is posing holding a bag, a bundle of sticks on his back, and a long stick over his sh... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | E.W. Brandel, Mrs. Brandel, and the Taylors pose in chairs in front of a building. The man on the right is smoking a cigar, and behind them are windows wit... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Full-length tudio portrait of Ho-Chunk elder, Mary Thunderchief Snowball (WaSayMaKaWinKah), posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is holding ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of an elderly Ho-Chunk man posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a suit jacket and eyeglasses, and is ident... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | "Gramps" (E.W.) Brandel wearing a hat and eyeglasses, paddling with a big smile on his face. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Katherine (Kate) Quinney and her brothers, Thomas (Tom) and Willam (Bill), standing in a yard. |
| Date: | 06 1922 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Union veterans standing on the steps in front of a building, June 12-14. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Union veterans, some holding a banner reading "Iron Brigade," marching on a downtown street in a parade during a state encampment. |
| Date: | 06 1928 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of some of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic at a reunion. |
| Date: | 06 24 1920 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the extended Gillett family at a reunion. |
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