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Girls in Red, White and Blue

Date: 1904
Description: Nine girls are posing standing and wearing patriotic costumes. One girl is holding a flag of the United States. Probably a smaller group, from a total of t...
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Ho-Chunk Powwow Participants

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Description: This photograph of Ho-Chunk powwow participants is a copy made by Van Schaick. From left to right are: John Hazen Hill (HaNaKah), William Hall (HunkKah), W...
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Girl By Stream

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Description: Girl wearing dress, with hat in hand, standing next to a stream. She is shown from the back, looking downstream and waving.
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Family Portrait

Date: 1910
Description: Five people, possibly family, posing in front of a building. A man is standing on the left with his arms crossed, and two women stand on the right near tre...
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Funeral Wreath for Boy and Baby

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Description: Funeral wreath surrounding two studio portraits of a boy and baby,with two attached panels "Our darling" above and "AT REST" below. Possibly a grave stone...
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Two Girls

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Description: Studio portrait of two young girls posing in front of a painted backdrop depicting trees and a tree stump. The older girl, on the left, is facing slightly ...
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Boy with Delivery Wagon

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Description: Boy posing standing next to a delivery wagon pulled by a single horse. Marked on side "Tel. 76" and a box of "Saxon Oats" in the wagon.
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Group of People near Waterfall

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Description: Group of four men and a girl standing on the opposite shoreline by the falls, with probably the Charter Oak Mill on the right on Squaw Creek.
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Woman Pushing Baby Carriage

Date: 1894
Description: Young woman in residential area, standing in a yard pushing a baby carriage with a ruffled top. On the left are houses, and in the far background a group o...
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Group of People near House

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Description: Man, four women, four girls, and two boys in the yard of a house near hammocks.
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Christmas Tree

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Description: Child with a Christmas tree and presents in a house.
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Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Girl

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Description: Belle Mattie Mike "ENooKah" (First Daughter), daughter of John Mike, Jr. "HayShooKeeKah" (One Horn) and his wife, Kate Littleblackhawk "ENooNeeKah" (Woman)...
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Girl with Sunflower

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Description: Girl posed standing holding the stem of a sunflower.
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Girl Posing in Greenery

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Description: A girl stands in a shrubbery arch in front of a house, probably the yard and house of the Spaulding family.
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Girl in front of Frame House

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Description: A young girl stands in front of a two-story frame house that is surrounded by a wooden fence.
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Semi-Centennial Pow Wow

Date: 1908
Description: Drummers and dancers at Semi-Centennial Pow Wow. Spectators are in the background, and a canvas is stretched around the clearing to make an enclosure. Buil...
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Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Children Gathering Cranberries

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Description: Six children sit in a cranberry bog, while another stands in the background.
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Woman and Child in Carriage

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Description: A woman and a young girl sit in a carriage that is pulled by a horse wearing a fly-net.
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Woman and Girl in Carriage

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Description: A woman and young girl sit in a carriage that is pulled by a horse. The corner of a building is on the right.

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