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Peshtigo Fire II. Fire in Town

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Description: Townspeople fleeing the Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871.
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Young Girls Playing with Dolls

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Description: Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch.
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Krueger Children at their First Christmas

Date: 12 26 1900
Description: Jennie, in rocking chair, and Edgar Krueger, on a rocking horse, with small Christmas tree and toys, including wagon, blocks, and doll, displayed outside o...
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Children Using a Telephone

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Description: Laurie and Muriel Peterson, children of the photographer, use a high chair to talk on the phone.
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Group Portrait of Mother and Children in front of Sod Farmhouse

Date: 1905
Description: View of farm woman and her two children posing in front of sod farmhouse on poor plot of land. The woman is sitting in a chair near the open front door. A ...
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Mother and Children Play on House Steps

Date: 1920
Description: Mother and her four children playing on the steps of a house. The children are playing with blocks, dolls and a stuffed animal.
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Add-a-Toy Mountain

Date: 12 17 1930
Description: View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta...
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Hattie Pautz and Her Dolls

Date: 04 1901
Description: Hattie Pautz, sitting and posing with her dolls in front of the side of a building. On the ground next to her is one of the dolls in a doll-sized lawn swin...
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Thompson House

Date: 1873
Description: The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl ...
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Woman Knitting with Family

Date: 1876
Description: Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ...
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Patty Hamilton with Doll

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Patty, daughter of Harry and Velma Hamilton, posed with "Marie", a costumed doll, in the State Historical Society museum's exhibition: "Christmas Customs i...
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Carol Lawton

Date: 06 28 1948
Description: Carol Lawton, age 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lawton, 3818 Euclid Avenue, is shown decorating her buggy for the Westmorland Community Association Ju...
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Nakoma Girl Scouts, Troop 42

Date: 12 16 1949
Description: In preparation for Christmas, Girl Scout Troop 42 of Nakoma School made 30 stuffed animals for children at the Washington Orthopedic school, and 100 Christ...
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Pythian Orphans' Home

Date: 1911
Description: A view of young girls playing with dolls in the nursery of Pythian Orphans' Home. Caption reads: "Nursery Room."
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Ventriloquism Act

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Description: Ben Bergor, Madison magician, ventriloquist, and entertainment agent, performing with Jerry O'Reilly at a farm show. With Bergor is his wife Alva who often...
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Women and Children Posing in front of House

Date: 1900
Description: A boy and a girl are sitting on a bench in front of a house near Cypress trees. A woman wearing a white dress is standing behind them. The girl is holding ...
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Krueger Children at their First Christmas

Date: 12 26 1900
Description: Jennie, in rocking chair, and Edgar Krueger, on a rocking horse, with small Christmas tree and toys, including wagon, blocks, and doll, displayed outside o...
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O'Hearn House

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Description: View across lawn of girl posing standing with small baby carriage, and a man posing standing and watering the lawn. They are in front of a Victorian-style ...
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Griggs Album: Three Girls in Winter Jackets

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Description: Three girls posing in winter jackets, hoods, and mittens, standing behind a railing and in front of the door to a building. One of the girls is holding up ...
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Playing with a Wooden Horse

Date: 03 1910
Description: Anna Fox and Rosella as children playing with and on a sledge “drawn” by a wooden horse named Caesar.

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