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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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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
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Two Ho-Chunk Women Leaning on Table Outdoors

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Description: Two Ho-Chunk women are leaning on a rough-hewn table on the ground in front of a wooden building. Against the building is a ladder leading to the roof. The...
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Milwaukee Turners Gymnasts

Date: 1909
Description: Six group portraits of men in human pyramid formations using ladders and one group portrait of men posing as a group at the 30th National Turnerfest in Cin...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's son Fedy (Ferdinand Leonard Hotz), in hat, and daughters pick cherries at the family orchard. Two of his daughters are standing on orcha...
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Woman using Loom

Date: 1910
Description: Woman using a loom outdoors. In her journal from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) she records: "The women braid the fibres together making a crude mat of them. The t...
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Missile Replacement

Date: 1986
Description: Three people standing in a field watching a missile replacement (large trailer lifted at an angle behind a barbed wire fence) at an Mx installation. Near t...
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Women with Baskets

Date: 1930
Description: Two unidentified Ho-Chunk women posing outdoors behind a pile of baskets made from split black ash. There is a tarpaper covered dwelling behind them with a...
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Ojibwa Man

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Description: Caption on reverse reads: "An old Chippewa Indian meditates as he puffs a new-fangled pipe of peace." He is seated on a hillock of grass with a pole in one...
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Belgian Refugees in Holland

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees in Holland. Mothers are combing their children's hair in the morning.
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In the Barn

Date: 1910
Description: Eight young men and women posing in a barn. They include Will von der Sump, far left, and his brother Fred, second from right. A dog in front of Fred moved...
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Women on Ladder

Date: 1910
Description: Ethel Wallace is sitting on a wooden box in front of five other women who are sitting on the rungs of a ladder propped on the side of a house. A dog is sit...
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Family Group

Date: 1905
Description: Hattie von der Sump, sitting at left, and her brother Fred, standing, posing with Mrs. Wallace and an unidentified toddler, who is sitting on the ground. T...

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