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Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1897
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Empire Mower, Reaper and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1884
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for J.F. Seiberling, manufacturer of agricultural equipment, featuring an engraving of boys marching under a benner of "Vic...
Photograph

Playing with Wagons

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Description: Esther Bigalk Clark, Edgar Krueger (on tricycle), Jennie Krueger, and Josie Bigalk Wendorf playing with wagons, dolls and a toy wheelbarrow outdoors.
Photograph

Girls in Nightgowns

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Description: Group of little girls posed wearing nightgowns. Each holds an identically dressed doll and a candle.
Photograph

Family Grouped around Table by House

Date: 1879
Description: A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin...
Photograph

Family Posed near Frame House

Date: 1874
Description: A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the...
Photograph

Family and Dog in Front of House

Date: 1898
Description: A man, woman, mother-in-law, and three children posing in the yard in front of a clapboard frame house. The young girl in the middle is holding a doll, and...
Print

Santa and Children on a Coffee Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertising greeting card which reads "Handsome Christmas Card in Every package of Lion Coffee, November 5 to Christmas Day." The card depicts Santa Claus ...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Three Children with Tricycle

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Description: Studio portrait of three children posing in front of a painted backdrop. Two children are standing, and one holds an umbrella and the other a doll. The oth...
Photograph

Leaving Chicago & "Going over to Michigan"

Date: 1919
Description: Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones on a ship, possibly the City of St. Joseph, on Lake Michigan when the Richard Lloyd Jones family was moving from Madison ...
Photograph

Elderly Woman with Young Girl

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Description: An elderly woman sits with a young girl holding a doll for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The woman wears an elaborately decorated coat ...
Photograph

Girl Holding a Doll

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Description: A studio portrait of a young girl wearing a dress and holding a doll in front of a painted backdrop. The girl stands and rests her arm on a stuffed chair w...
Photograph

Girls Playing Dress Up

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Description: Two young girls dressed up as women in front of a photographer's backdrop. The girl on the left holds a doll while the girl on the right pushes her doll in...
Photograph

Outdoor Family Portrait

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Description: An outdoor family portrait with two women, one man, and four children. Two boys are wearing hats, and one of the girls is holding a doll. A dog is sitting ...
Photograph

The J.B. Alexander Family

Date: 1900
Description: The J.B. Alexander family at the Wisconsin Central train depot. The young child in front holds a doll.
Photograph

Two Girls with Decorated Baby Carriages

Date: 07 05 1944
Description: Adults are standing around two girls with decorated baby carriages before a Fourth of July parade. There is a house, yard and automobile in the background.
Photograph

Group Portrait

Date: 1895
Description: A group of unidentified men, women and children photographed on a bentwood bench outdoors. One girl holds a doll, and a woman holds an infant.
Photograph

Two Children Posing with Christmas Tree

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Description: Portrait of a boy and girl posed by a Christmas tree. The boy is sitting on a toy horse on the left and is wearing a military style hat and holding a toy g...
Photograph

Jaycettes' Fashion Show

Date: 04 19 1950
Description: Two of the younger models in the Jaycettes' fashion show pose with a Raggedy Andy doll. Arthur Gallagher Field, age 3 1/2, and his sister, Betty Ann, 5 1/...

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