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Everetta and Cary Bass

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, helping her brother Cary put on a silk top hat. She is holding a doll and they are standing outside near a fire...
Postcard

Best Christmas Wishes

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with Santa Claus at the bedside of a child, handing out toys. There are dolls, a bear, a badminton racket and bird, ball and a toy horse. ...
Postcard

Merry Christmas

Date: 1909
Description: Holiday postcard with a little girl asleep in bed. Santa Claus is gazing at her with a doll in his left hand. He has a sack of toys on his back and is wear...
Postcard

Christmas Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard with a white and metallic gold border depicting Santa Claus handing a doll to a girl as a boy is looking on from the background. The child...
Photograph

Willms Sisters Holding Dolls

Date: 1902
Description: Lydia Willms (b. 1896), center, with her twin sisters Emma (1893-1974) and Marge (1893-1973) holding their dolls posing standing outside a building, probab...
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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 ...
Photograph

Family in Front of House

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Description: Group posing in the yard front of a frame house. A woman is standing next to a girl who is sitting and holding a doll. In the center is a dog sitting on a ...
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Family in Front of House

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Description: View of group of people posing in a yard. A man is sitting surrounded by a woman, young girl and boy, and an older boy. The young girl is holding a hat and...
Photograph

Family in Front of House

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Description: Group portrait of people posing near a picket fence in front of a frame house. On the left is a single horse with a fly-net pulling a buggy. A man with a b...
Photograph

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 ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Orioles with Their Dolls

Date: 1940
Description: Group portrait of the Orioles, members of a club for ten-year-old girls at Neighborhood House. A former worker at the settlement house then working in a ho...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Shirley's Second Christmas

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger sitting in a chair next to a decorated Christmas tree in front of the porch. Several of her toys are placed around the base of the tree.
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Shirley with an Outdoor Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger sitting a chair next to a decorated Christmas tree that has been placed just off the porch. Several of her presents are around the base of ...
Photograph

Shirley and a Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1932
Description: Shirley Krueger standing next to an outdoor decorated Christmas tree. Several of her presents are placed at the base of the tree.
Photograph

Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified Men and Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a group of men and children. The children, boys and girls, are standing on a wooden sidewalk in front of a picket fence, and a li...
Photograph

Children Posing By Tree

Date: 1936
Description: Walker Reid (1929-2016) standing alongside tree with Indian girl. Reid Walker shown is 7-years-old, and is the son of Carol McMillan Reid. Portrait taken a...
Photograph

Jeannette Holt's Fifth Birthday in Oconto

Date: 05 08 1901
Description: Jeannette Holt is posing with her doll who is sitting in a wicker baby carriage. In the background are the stairs leading up to the Holt family home. Capti...
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Traveling by Train

Date: 06 16 1911
Description: A group of travelers are standing on a platform, with the train station in the background. Names from left to right: Philip Smith, Eleanor Holt, Jeannette ...

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