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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Portrait of an elderly couple seated in their home. The woman is holding a bouquet of flowers. The man is seated slightly behind her, with his right arm o... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Indoor view of an elderly man posing sitting in a chair, and an elderly woman standing. They are probably in a bedroom. Perhaps the Peterson family. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of an elderly couple, both seated in chairs in front of a painted backdrop. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Olver (Oliver) family. In chairs: Alice Melissa and John Joseph; sons, from left to right standing: Louis Franklin (Frank), Willard S... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of about 40 members of the Lloyd Jones family. The empty chair in the front row was placed in memory of the wife of Richard Lloyd Jones. |
| Date: | 08 04 1898 |
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| Description: | Carl Schmidt seated in a chair with a cane on a porch in front of a door and a window. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. William Krueger, sitting, with a potted geranium plant placed on a table behind her. A blanket is hanging behind her as a backdrop. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Krueger holding a book in his lap and holding a pair of eyeglasses. Behind him, a long pipe is resting against a table on which a box i... |
| Date: | 05 1899 |
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| Description: | View of William Krueger sitting on a bench next to the house, weaving a willow basket and smoking a pipe. In the background is a pedal grinding/sharpening ... |
| Date: | 10 1899 |
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| Description: | A view of men and women husking corn in the field behind a farmhouse. Sitting from left to right are: August Prahl, August Krueger, Sarah Krueger, William... |
| Date: | 10 20 1856 |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ambrotype. Three-quarter length studio portrait of James Steele sitting in a chair with his arm resting on a table covered with a patterned c... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Informal group portrait outdoors of elderly woman with two young children. “Laura, Elizabeth, and Aunt Ellen Richardson.” |
| Date: | 05 28 1898 |
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| Description: | Seated, posed group portrait at the annual meeting, outdoors at the semi-centennial celebration in Sherman's Grove. Identified from left: John Eckles, Ed.... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ann Dudley, as an old lady, seated in a garden, Sullivan. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of a “famous Ohio fiddler” Alfred Squiers Utley with his fiddle. Alfred Squiers Utley was born in Monson, Mass. 1817, son of Hamilton and... |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Cadle seated in a bedroom, looking out a window. On the table in front of her is a cup and saucer. |
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