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Fashionable Family outside Home

Date: 1870
Description: Extended family of fourteen posed in their best clothes outside a home. Older woman seated in rocking chair, with men, women, girls, boy and baby.
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Woman and Infant

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman sitting and holding an infant on her lap. The woman is wearing a dark dress, glasses, a large hat with flowers on it, and silve...
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Indian Woman and Child

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Description: View of a Native American woman holding an infant.
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Holiday Greetings

Date: 1929
Description: A combined holiday card and birth announcement with Santa Claus and a stork holding a banner between them that says "Holiday Greetings from the Knowltons i...
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Best Wishes

Date: 1930
Description: Inside of a holiday card, showing a baby in a cradle with a star holding netting from above. To the right is the text "Best Wishes for A Merry Christmas an...
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R. Harper & Son Billhead

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Description: Billhead of R. Harper & Son of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Decorators, House & Sign Painters & Dealers in Wallpaper, Window Shades &c &c," with various typeface...
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Outdoor Portrait of Elderly Woman and Three Children

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Description: Group portrait of an elderly woman and three small children, including an infant. The woman is seated in a chair with the infant on her lap. A boy stands o...
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Woman, Child, and Dog

Date: 1910
Description: Edna King stands behind an infant in a stroller in a garden next to a wooden building. A dog is lying next to the stroller. Vines grow on lattice structure...
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Ruth and Alice Kressin Sitting Outside with a Cat

Date: 10 14 1906
Description: Ruth, holding a cat, and Alice Kressin sitting outdoors on a blanket. Behind them is the side of a half-timbered house.
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Shirley in a Rocking Chair

Date: 1932
Description: Outdoor portrait of Shirley Krueger sitting in a rocking chair. The chair and the building behind has ivy growing on it.
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Alexander and Shirley Krueger

Date: 1932
Description: Outdoor portrait of Alexander Krueger sitting in a rocking chair with his granddaughter, Shirley Krueger, sitting in his lap. Ivy is draped on the rocking ...
Historical Object

Louise Mears Fargo and Her Children

Date: 08 1901
Description: A photograph of Louise Mears Fargo and her children is mounted on an album page decorated with a hand-painted wild rose. In the photograph, Louise, wearing...
Photograph

Laurie, Muriel and James Peterson Outdoors

Date: 1913
Description: Laurie Peterson, standing, and Muriel Peterson, kneeling, pose as if taking photographs of James seated on the ground. They each hold a camera. James is tu...
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Adoring Baby Jeannette Holt

Date: 07 25 1896
Description: Three of Lucy Rumsey Holt bridesmaids and her mother Mary Mathilda Axtell Rumsey are adoring baby Jeannette Holt. This picture was taken on Lucy and W.A. H...
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Family at Villa Henrietta

Date: 1920
Description: Herbert P. Brumder, wearing a cap and necktie, is holding his son Herbert E. Brumder on his hip while his wife, Margaret is holding baby Barbara. The woman...

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