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Three Seated Farm Girls

Date: 1895
Description: Three farm girls, probably of German extraction, seated on a bench, playing with three kids (young goats) in their laps. There are buildings in the backgro...
Photograph

Portrait of a Seated Woman

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor portrait of Rose Loomis, of Sullivan, Ohio, wearing a dress and seated in a rocking chair in a garden.
Print

President's Dinner at Gayoso Hotel Menu

Date: 10 14 1887
Description: One-page menu for the visit of President Grover Cleveland to Memphis, with a woman with an upswept hairstyle and a choker, wearing a low-necked Delftware-p...
Print

President's Dinner at Gayoso Hotel Menu

Date: 10 14 1887
Description: One-page menu for the visit of President Grover Cleveland to Memphis, with a man in a powdered wig wearing a waistcoat with wide, decorated cuffs, ruffled...
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Grace May Hall as a Circus Child

Date: 1891
Description: Grace May Hall, as a five-year-old circus child, with a large show python coiled at her feet and a smaller show snake around her neck.
Photograph

Carte-de-Visite of Judith Kilburn

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait, carte-de-visite, of Judith Kilburn, later wife of Moses Farnum.
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Portrait of Laura (Smith) Kaun

Date: 1894
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Laura (Smith) Kaun (1875-1937) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is wearing a dress with ...
Photograph

Seven Young Women

Date: 1896
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop and prop column of seven European American women sitting on the floor. They are all leaning against one anot...
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The Oderboltz Family

Date: 1880
Description: Three-quarter length studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young people in a European American family posed standing. The woman wear dres...
Photograph

Amelia Bright Williams Studio Portrait

Date: 1880
Description: Cabinet studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Amelia Bright Williams, second wife of Chauncey Williams.
Photograph

Unidentified Woman

Date: 1885
Description: Carte-de-visite quarter-length portrait of an unidentified young woman. She is wearing a lace collar with a brooch, and a dark ribbon around her neck.
Photograph

Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne

Date: 1856
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Mary Louise Baker Lidgerwood Browne. Daughter of Charles Minton Baker of Lake Geneva. Taken in New York before her family jour...
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Alice Russell Hobbins Porter

Date: 1873
Description: Mrs. Robert B. (Alice Russell Hobbins) Porter posing for a waist-up formal portrait. She is wearing a light-colored lace dress with a lace headpiece. She i...
Photograph

Mrs. Alexander Mitchell

Date: 1880
Description: Cabinet card of a full-length studio portrait of Mrs. Alexander Mitchell standing in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a floor-length dark-colore...
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — December

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar back, with the month of December. Features an illustration of the Buckeye Binders and Mowers Factory buildings. In the foreground on the right a y...
Magazine or Periodical

Detail of 'Comely Features' Article

Date: 12 1894
Description: An illustration from the article "Comely Features" in Godey's Ladies Book, showing elimination of forehead wrinkles.
Photograph

Richard Caddell

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite studio portrait of 1st Lieutenant Richard Cadell seated in a chair and wearing his military uniform. He holds a rifle in his right hand and...
Photograph

S.A. Tifft and Co. Bicycle Livery

Date: 06 1899
Description: Two men and a woman pose on a wooden sidewalk in front of a bicycle livery with three bicycles. An awning is folded above the storefront, and signs and mer...
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Franz Hölzlhuber

Date: 1856
Description: Waist-up portrait of Franz Holzlhuber.
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Self-Portrait in Mirror

Date: 1880
Description: A female photographer takes a self-portrait in a mirror. The left and bottom frame of the mirror are in the foreground. Her camera is an Eastman Kodak Comp...

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