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Gesell Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts.
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Anita McCormick Blaine as Child

Date: 1870
Description: Studio portrait of a young Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) seated in a chair holding a doll. She is wearing a dress and her feet are resting on pillows ...
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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...
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1918
Description: Holiday card with a young girl looking at herself in the mirror. She is wearing a white dress with a green sash, white stockings, black shoes and a militar...
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Sweet and Modest Little Girls

Date: 1859
Description: Valentine's Day card with young girl holding a doll. She and her doll are both wearing a dress. The girl has her hair in a snood. A verse is below that rea...
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Family Group

Date: 1905
Description: A group portrait of two women, a man, a boy and a girl posing in a parlor; two other rooms are visible through doorways. The girl is seated in front of a p...
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Two Women and Piano

Date: 1900
Description: Two well-dressed young women pose in front of a piano. One holds a fan in her lap, the other holds a piece of sheet music titled "When We Were Two Little B...
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Cowboy Eddie and Friends

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Description: Madison television personality Howie Olson (right) with Cowboy Eddie and his friend magician Ben Bergor.
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Family Group with Pets

Date: 1905
Description: A girl on a rocking chair holds a rabbit, and a boy and a woman stand in the background. The boy rests his hand on a dogs head; the dog is lying on a love ...
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Lorinda and Everetta Bass

Date: 1895
Description: Lorinda Hill Bass and her granddaughter, Everetta Bass, sitting in a parlor. Everetta holds two dolls in her lap. There is a large oil lamp in the backgrou...
Postcard

Child on Hobby Horse

Date: 1930
Description: A child rides a hobby horse that is pulling a wagon filled with a toy lion and doll. A rocking chair holding a large doll, a small doll and teddy bear is p...
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Neighborhood House N.B.B.O. Club Scrapbook: Packing Juanita's Suitcase

Date: 12 1937
Description: Members of the N.B.B.O. Club at Neighborhood House, posing with the contents of a suitcase they put together to send to a five-year-old girl in Spain. The ...
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Studio Portrait of European American Children

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three unidentified European American girls posing standing outdoors on a wooden sidewalk in front of a wooden building and door. ...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Child

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified girl posing standing in a yard holding a doll. She is wearing a light-colored dress and a bow in her hair. In the backg...
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Mary and Howard Greene

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Description: Full-length portrait of Mary Lydia Greene and Howard Greene posing with toys. Mary has a doll in a baby buggy, and Howard has a locomotive placed on a chai...
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Woman with Doll

Date: 1930
Description: An unidentified woman is holding a doll while standing beside an open glass topped display case. She is in a gallery or museum, with paintings hanging on t...
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Children Around Christmas Tree

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of the Ponkratz girls sitting around the Christmas tree. Two girls are sitting on the left, with the older girl holding a doll, and the youn...
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Jeannette Holt, Harriet Stroh and the Home-made Swing

Date: 1904
Description: Jeannette Holt and Harriet Stroh are sitting and lying in the grass while playing with three dolls. Two of the dolls are sitting on a swing, made of sticks...
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Nola Franklin and Doll

Date: 1918
Description: Nola Franklin (daughter of Jerome Francis Franklin Jr.) holding a baby doll. It is summer and she is standing in front of the Franklin Hardware Store and E...
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Norma Talmadge in "The Forbidden City"

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Description: Norma Talmadge sits and clutches a doll in a publicity photograph for the 1918 film "The Forbidden City." As the character Toy, she is wearing a tradition...

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