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Elderly Woman and Infant

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of an elderly woman holding an infant sitting and posing in a chair between two potted plants. Behind them is draped fabric as a backdrop.
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Portrait of a Young Girl

Date: 1912
Description: Portrait of a young girl standing beside a wicker-back chair.
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Pendarvis — Room with Fireplace

Date: 1936
Description: View of a room in Pendarvis House. There is a map of Cornwall over the fireplace. A bedwarmer and a bellows sit at the base of the hearth.
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Polperro House Second Floor at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Room on the second floor in Polperro House. In the center is a stairwell up to the next floor, a bookshelf in the right corner, and a portrait of a man abo...
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Trelawny House Bedroom at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Bedroom in Trelawny House. Furniture includes a 4-poster bed, two chairs, a chest, a dresser, and a wash basin and ewer on a stand.
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Polperro House Sitting Room at Pendarvis Complex

Date: 1936
Description: Sitting room in Polperro House. Rocking chairs and a bench are by the fire in the fireplace. A corner china cabinet is on the right near a window.
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Braided Rugs

Date: 10 08 1959
Description: Mary Paulick sitting on the floor while working on a large braided rug.
Postcard

Gag Photo of a Man Posing with Paper Woman

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Description: A gag photo postcard of a man, seated on the edge of a bed, with his arm around a life-sized paperboard cut out of a beautiful, seated woman. He is holding...
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The Gillett Children

Date: 1920
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Harry (b. 1910), Sherry (b. 1913), and Lorin (b. 1915).
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Lorin Gillett as a Child

Date: 1919
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young Lorin Gillett sitting on a stool.
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Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Christmas Decorations

Date: 1910
Description: Residential dining room with Christmas decorations and circular table with turkey, set for two places.
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Screened Porch at Avery's Edgewater Lodge

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Description: Screened porch furnished with wicker chairs and a sofa, lamps and a rug.
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Caid Kahlifa Lamin

Date: 1930
Description: Caid Kahlifa Lamin poses in front of an opening, perhaps a door, in a cement wall, covered with a cloth hanging. He is dressed in official attire and is st...
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Grace May Hall as a Circus Child

Date: 1891
Description: Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck.
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Study, Walmar Lodge

Date: 1926
Description: The study at Walmar Lodge. There is a piano against the far wall, chairs by the windows, and a fireplace on the opposite wall.
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Wedding Decorations

Date: 09 02 1897
Description: Interior of the John A. Landfair home, showing floral decorations for the wedding of Kate Landfair and Marvin B. Rosenberry, later Chief Justice of the Sup...
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Woman Weaving a Rug

Date: 1929
Description: A woman is sitting at a loom, weaving a rug.
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Bertine Benson and Amelia Torkelson

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young European American women posed standing side-by-side with their arms around each oth...
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Portrait of a Young Man Standing

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young European American man posed standing with his right hand resting on the back of a cha...

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