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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...
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Christmas Tree with Portraits

Date: 1900
Description: A Christmas tree decorated with ornaments and dolls is displayed with framed portraits of a man and woman on either side. A frame of artificial snow and ic...
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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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Couple and Doll in a Boat

Date: 1925
Description: View from shoreline of young couple posing together in a boat by a pier. A doll is sitting on the bow of the boat. The far shoreline of the lake is in the ...
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Portrait of Julia Maddock Wearing Ho-Chunk Dress

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Description: Studio portrait of a European American girl posing sitting in front of a painted backdrop, holding a Ho-Chunk cradle board with a china-headed doll. She is...
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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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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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Zintka Lanuni Colby in Indian Clothing

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Description: Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, as a young child wearing traditional Indian clothing of a fringed shirt, and pants. She is ...
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Joe Oesterle's Japanese Doll Collection

Date: 11 01 1951
Description: Joe Osterle, 2411 Monroe Street, is pictured with his collection of handmade Japanese dolls. Mr. Osterle, a Korean War veteran, collected the dolls and oth...
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Alice Kent Trimpey with a Doll

Date: 1945
Description: Mrs. Trimpey sits in a chair holding her doll, Emeline.
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Antique Dolls

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Mrs. Roman (Doris) Hilgers posing with some of her collection of dolls for which she has made fashion clothing over the past five years.
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Baby Week

Date: 04 16 1952
Description: Portrait of twenty-month-old Emily Jane Kiekfofer standing on a sofa.
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Girl Washing Doll Clothes

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Bertha Gesell washing doll clothes in a wooden tub. Clothes are on a clothesline behind her. Her doll sit...
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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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Edgar and Jennie Krueger at 11-Months-Old

Date: 03 1900
Description: Indoor portrait of Edgar and Jennie Krueger, at age 11 months and 17 days, posing in front of a light cloth backdrop. They are wearing matching dresses wit...
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Jennie and Edgar Krueger in Front of Plant

Date: 03 18 1900
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger, at 11 months and 17 days old, each sitting on a chair covered with a dark cloth. They are posing in front of a white backdrop and...
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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...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 10 23 1954
Description: Rebecca Rae Rodgerson, age three, hugs a doll she received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The club, sponsored by the ...
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Studio Portrait of Girl in Snow with Dog and Doll

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Description: Cabinet card studio portrait of a young girl, posed with a doll in a baby carriage and her dog. The background is a painted backdrop of the Wisconsin State...

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