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Margery Bish Hanging Clothes on Clothesline

Date: 1890
Description: Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right.
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Anna Gourlay

Date: 01 25 1864
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Anna Martin Gourlay (1858-1864). She is seated, facing forward, wearing a short-sleeved dress, and holding a doll...
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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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Tannisse and David Taylor having a Tea Party

Date: 1914
Description: Photographer Herman Taylor's children sit at a little table in front of the hearth in the library.
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Denton Family

Date: 12 28 1941
Description: Group portrait of Denton family, showing parents with five daughters, two dolls and a Christmas tree.
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Robert and Judy La Follette

Date: 11 08 1934
Description: Robert La Follette, 8, holding large wooden boat, and Judy La Follette, 5, holding a doll. They are the children of Governor-elect Phillip La Follette and ...
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Bob and Judy La Follette

Date: 11 08 1934
Description: Portrait of Bob La Follette, 8, holding airplane model, and Judy La Follette, 5, holding her doll, children of Governor elect Phillip La Follette and Isabe...
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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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Christmas Scene

Date: 12 28 1928
Description: A little girl posing in a living room with a Christmas tree, toys, and a doll she got for Christmas.
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Denton Family

Date: 12 28 1941
Description: Group portrait of Denton family showing parents, five daughters, two dolls, a Christmas tree and a dog.
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Group of Children with U.S. Flag

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Description: Group of twenty-five children posed in front of a 38-star United States flag. One girl holds an African American doll and one boy holds a drum. Note: The 3...
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Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop showing Bertha Gesell washing and hanging doll clothes.
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Girls in Nightgowns

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Description: Group of little girls posed wearing nightgowns. Each holds an identically dressed doll and a candle.
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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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Children With Christmas Presents

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Roger and Mary Sue Mallory, in front of a Christmas Tree, playing with toys their father Lieut. Col. Robert Mallory, stationed in France, sent to them. Rog...
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Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ...
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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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Children Standing Near Christmas Tree

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Cynthia and Catherine Rogers, daughters of Captain and Mrs. (Virginia) Sion C. Rogers, in their home celebrating Christmas. Cynthia, two-years-old, is hold...
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Children with Christmas Presents From Hawaii

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Karen, age 5, Gretchen, age 11, and Kristen, 16 months, daughters of Lt. and Mrs. Eldred Olson with their Christmas presents from Hawaii. They are wearing ...
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Cynthia Harley Birthday Party

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Cynthia Harley celebrates her second birthday with seven young girls. She was born July 13, 1943, daughter of University of Wisconsin Radio Director Willia...

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