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Agnes Moorehead as a Child

Date: 1903
Description: Agnes Moorehead is shown at about 4 years of age. She wears a white dress stands beside a flowering bush.
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Buckhorn Cheese Company

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Description: Exterior view of the Buckhorn Cheese Company plant. A sign painted on the exterior of the building reads: "Take One Home."
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Silver Presentation Delegation and Wives

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: The official delegation party with their wives at the ceremony of silver service presentation aboard the USS "Wisconsin". Seated left to right are Judge Ro...
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Twin Girls at Piano

Date: 03 29 1944
Description: Young twin sisters sitting together at the piano.
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Woman On Avery Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Woman holding flowers posing on the back of an Avery gasoline tractor.
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Prize-winning Gladiolas

Date: 1955
Description: A smiling girl poses with stalks of gladiolas that won the champion ribbon for "Gladiolus Spike," and the first premium ribbon for "Horticulture Plants and...
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Crucifixion Scene at St. Camillus Novitiate

Date: 1946
Description: Statues depicting the crucifixion of Christ, surrounded by flowers before the chapel. Two pine trees are behind the chapel.
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Dead Baby in Casket

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Description: Tintype (ferrotype) of a dead baby in casket, covered with roses.
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City Hall

Date: 1939
Description: Somewhat out-of-focus exterior view of City Hall from the Capitol grounds.
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California Poppy Field

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Description: A worker is shown in a California poppy field.
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Taliesin

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior view of Frank Lloyd Wright's residence, Taliesin, from the southeast, emphasizing the broad overhangs and horizontal lines of the structure. Holly...
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Secor Residence

Date: 1910
Description: Exterior view of the Secor residence at Milwaukee Avenue and West Street.
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Engagement Party of Cyrus McCormick III and Dorothy Linn

Date: 1915
Description: Cyrus McCormick III (1890-1970), his fiancée Dorothy Linn (b. 1892), his mother Harriet Hammond McCormick (1862-1921), his father Cyrus McCormick Jr. (1859...
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Cistercian Monastery

Date: 1940
Description: Cistercian Monastery. Plants and trees shroud building.
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A Mother's Funeral Coffin

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Description: Open coffin, decorated with flowers, and a wreath that reads, "Our Mother" in a funeral salon.
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Milwaukee Auditorium

Date: 12 07 1909
Description: The Main Hall of the Milwaukee Auditorium. Set for the Charity Ball with many flower arrangements and seats.
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Louis R. Perini

Date: 04 17 1957
Description: Milwaukee Braves owner Lou Perini at a preseason banquet.
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Bis in Fancy Dress

Date: 1917
Description: Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones sitting on steps in a fancy dress, high button shoes, and a hat with a large flower.
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Bis in a Fancy Dress

Date: 1917
Description: Florence (Bis) Lloyd Jones stands on the lawn with her back to the camera, in a fancy dress and a hat with a large flower.
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Vine-Covered Birdhouse

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Description: Man standing near Purple Martin birdhouse on a tall post, near a border of flowering bushes. There are houses in the background.

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