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Camp 20

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window.
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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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Family at Home

Date: 1905
Description: A carefully posed scene of a man, woman, and girl at home. The girl sits with a cat on her lap. The man, in a wicker rocker, reads the "Editorial Section" ...
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Mother and Son

Date: 12 1900
Description: Uncropped portrait of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison and her son Ben, who was later better known by his stage name, Ben Bergor.
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Clara Middleton at Home

Date: 1909
Description: Clara Case Middleton stands behind a rocking chair beyond a curtained doorway. In the front room, a zither and banjo are displayed near a parlor organ.
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Dining Room

Date: 1909
Description: A view through a curtained doorway into the Middleton family dining room at 22 East Mifflin Street. A decorative bowl and china coffee set are on the table...
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Library in the Home of John Johnston

Date: 1900
Description: Library in the home of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, located at 645 Franklin Place, also known as "The Lion House." The dining ...
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McCormick Family Library

Date: 1900
Description: Library of the McCormick family home at 675 Rush Street. The home was built for Cyrus Hall McCormick and his wife Nettie Fowler in 1873.
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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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Interior of Conrad Schmitt Home

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of the parlor of the Conrad Schmitt (Sherwin Gillett's father-in-law) home. Family photographs are on the wall and on the piano.
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Ida Fels with her Hair Down

Date: 1901
Description: Ida Fels (?) standing in front of a white backdrop looking over her shoulder at the camera with her long hair let down.
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Sarah Krueger with a Curtain

Date: 1908
Description: Sarah Krueger poking her head out from between two curtains.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Petersen

Date: 1900
Description: Edward Petersen poses, seated in a chair, and his wife stands next to him on the left. They appear to be reading papers which Edward is holding. Behind the...
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Edward Petersen

Date: 1900
Description: Edward Petersen at home, wearing a smoking jacket with quilted collar and cuffs. He is sitting in a wide doorway, hanging with tasseled draperies, holding ...
Postcard

James G. Dunn Grocery

Date: 1900
Description: Photographic postcard of the James G. Dunn Grocery, with William John Dunn standing on the left and Maggie (O'Hare) Dunn on the right.

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Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman

Date: 1905
Description: Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman posing in a home on W. Washington Avenue. She is standing reading a document in a parlor with a piano.
Postcard

Lemon Tree

Date: 1905
Description: A large unripened lemon hangs from a bare branch of a potted lemon tree photographed in a parlor. The tree has lost most of its leaves. A printed inscripti...
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Bathroom

Date: 1900
Description: A wicker rocker and bentwood side chair flank the bathtub in a bathroom of the Frank Brown Fargo house. There is a hot water heater above the tub in the co...
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Mother's Room

Date: 1900
Description: A highboy dresser, left, and its lowboy counterpart flank the large bay window in Louise Mears Fargo's bedroom. There is an electic wall sconce on either s...

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