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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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Mother and Baby Playing

Date: 1903
Description: Beatrice C. Gesell and Gerhard Gesell, Jr. play out-of-doors. While mother watches the baby sits on a pillow playing with a volume titled "Educational Pro...
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"Chippeway [Ojibwa] Squaw and Child"

Date: 1826
Description: Portrait of a Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman and her child, originally titled "Chippeway Squaw and Child." Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, ...
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Mother Feeding Infant

Date: 09 01 1971
Description: A young mother feeds her infant baby food outdoors.
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Office Baby

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Mother brings baby to secretarial job.
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Backyard Swimming Pool

Date: 07 25 1980
Description: A family relaxes by their backyard pool, while a father tosses his infant son gently in the air.
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Nettie F. McCormick, Daughter Anita, and Grandson Emmons Blaine

Date: 1892
Description: Portrait of three generations of McCormicks: (L to R) Emmons Blaine, Jr., (1890-1918), Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), and Anita McCormick Blaine (186...
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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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Big Baby

Date: 10 04 1958
Description: A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse.
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Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
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Mother and Baby

Date: 1903
Description: A mother sits with her baby on front steps in the sun surrounded by toys.
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A Star Is Born

Date: 05 18 1937
Description: Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte...
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Isabel B. La Follette and Daughter

Date: 03 11 1936
Description: Two-week-old Isabel B. La Follette, held by her mother Isabel La Follette.
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Mother and Her 17th Baby

Date: 07 22 1935
Description: Clara Halvorson, married to Henry Halvorson, resting with her 17th child, John Skews Halvorson, at Methodist Hospital shortly after the baby's birth. She w...
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Woman & Baby

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
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Mr. & Mrs. Archie Parkins with Baby

Date: 01 09 1935
Description: Arthur Parkins, Jr. holding surviving newborn twin baby, John Archie Parkins, following the death of twin baby James Burton Parkins. His wife Kathryn is ly...
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Mother and Baby

Date: 1903
Description: Hand-colored photograph depicting a Native American mother holding her child in a cradleboard. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans pre...
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Native American Mother

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Description: A Chippewa mother with two children at Minocqua, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first ...
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Family at Home

Date: 1955
Description: A mother posing with her seven children in the living room of their home.
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Kruegers by the Clothesline

Date: 05 23 1932
Description: Baby Shirley Krueger watching from her carriage as her mother Elna Krueger is taking laundry off the clothesline.

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