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Weighing Guests

Date: 1898
Description: Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left.
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Sarah Fairchild Conover

Date: 1895
Description: Sarah Fairchild Dean Conover, sister of Civil War hero and governor Lucius Fairchild, reclines on a sofa in her home at 424 North Pinckney Street.
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Harriet Bell Merrill

Date: 1890
Description: Vignetted head and shoulders studio portrait of Harriet Bell Merrill.
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Pneumatic Tube System

Date: 1890
Description: A worker stands next to a pneumatic tube communication system used at the Milwaukee Electric, Railway, and Light Company.
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Gesell Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts.
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Moqui [Hopi] Indian Group

Date: 08 1898
Description: A Moqui [Hopi] Indian group of adults and children.
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Family in Yard of Large House

Date: 1898
Description: View across yard towards a man sitting in a chair, with two woman standing on the left and right. The two women are wearing black dresses with white bows t...
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Portrait of Pauline L'Allemand

Date: 1891
Description: Head and shoulders portrait from right side, with head turned partially forward but not looking directly at viewer. She has long hair gathered at neck and ...
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Portrait of a Woman

Date: 1892
Description: Oval quarter-length portrait of a young woman. She is wearing a band over her ringlet curls, a dark dress with buttons down the front, a short white lacy c...
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Alice M. Robertson

Date: 12 1897
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Alice M. Robertson.
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Studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

Date: 1896
Description: Waist-up portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the best known leaders of the women's suffrage movement who had strong ties to the North Country and who o...
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Ada Bass

Date: 1890
Description: Ada Bass, wife of the photographer, standing in a room showing her long hair extending down her back.
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Man with Cabinet Card

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Ho-Chunk man with long hair posing sitting with his legs crossed. He is wearing a suit, b...
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Burlingame Family Portrait

Date: 1893
Description: Ada Burlingame Bass, center, with her daughter Everetta, and parents Leroy J. (far left) and Alvina Burlingame (far right.) The other man and woman are un...
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Ada Bass with her Hair Down

Date: 1895
Description: Ada Bass sits in a chair with her hair down, looking at a note, or possibly a photograph. An unidentified woman observes from the next room; decorative cor...
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Ada Bass with Her Hair Down

Date: 1895
Description: A professional studio portrait of Ada Burlingame Bass, standing in front of a painted backdrop, wife of physician and amateur photographer Dr. Edward A. Ba...
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Unidentified Woman

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified woman in a fancy dress and wearing a decorative comb in her hair.
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Valentine's Day Card

Date: 1890
Description: Valentine card with a girl framed with a metallic gold harp decorated with ribbons, hearts and flowers. She is wearing a white dress and has flowers in her...
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Studio Portrait of a Small Ho-Chunk Girl in Hiiwapox Blouse

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a small Ho-Chunk girl posing standing on a chair. She is wearing a traditional blouse covered completely ...
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Biology Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin

Date: 1899
Description: A class of male and female students work in a biology laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Two women stand in the middle of the large, open r...

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