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Studio Family Portrait

Date: 1899
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of elderly couple with their grown children.
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Men and Women Strolling in Studio

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Description: Group of men and women in a photography studio, posing in front of white backdrop. They are posed in a way that suggests a street scene. Harry Dankoler is ...
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Portrait of Eight Women and One Man

Date: 1899
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eight women, three of whom are sitting, and one seated man.
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Portrait of Elderly Couple

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of an elderly couple, both seated in chairs in front of a painted backdrop.
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Bried Family Portrait

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Description: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bried and family, consisting of three women and two men.
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Family Portrait

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Description: Family portrait of mother, father and 8 children (ca. 1900).
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Morris Family Portrait

Date: 1912
Description: Informal portrait of the W.A.P. Morris family, with the patriarch seated at the head of the table at the left, and his children and grandchildren. Portrai...
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Group Portrait of People Wearing Hats

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio group portrait of two men and two women, standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing hats.
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Studio Portrait of Seated Man and Woman

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Description: A seated man and woman pose for a studio portrait. The man wears a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, and trousers and he has his arm around the woman. A pi...
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The Schildhauers looking at Photographs

Date: 1897
Description: Four Schildhauers: H., Annie, Rudolph and Edward, sit in a parlor and look at a photo album.
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Henry Hamilton and Evaline Bennett with Daughters

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Description: A family portrait in front of a painted backdrop of H.H. Bennett, his wife Evaline, and their daughters Miriam and Ruth.
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Staged Scene of Dying Man

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Description: An actor playing a dying or dead man surrounded by a small group of people, including men, women and children. The image was staged at Harry Dankoler's pho...
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Group Watching Man Ride Sawhorse

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Description: A group in front of a backdrop watches a man in the foreground ride a sawhorse as if it were a real horse. The image was staged at Harry Dankoler's photogr...
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Large Group Seated in Photography Studio

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Description: A large group of people posed in chairs at Harry Dankoler's photography studio. Syl is the youngest child on the front row near the center aisle on the rig...
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Group Posed in Photography Studio

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Description: A posed photograph in front of a backdrop with two men standing to the left near a board resting on a book in the foreground. A woman and three other men a...
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Woman with Two Men

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Description: A woman who appears to be Aunt Helen shakes hands with a man in a room while another man looks on. The room appears to be a studio as it has a large painte...
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Mr. and Mrs. Trimpey

Date: 1920
Description: A seated studio portrait of the photographer and his wife, Alice Kent Trimpey.
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Abner Doubleday and his Wife Mary

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite of Major General Abner Doubleday in uniform, sitting, and his wife Mary, standing, wearing a cape over her dress.
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George B. McClellan and his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Major General George B. McClellan standing, with his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy, seated.
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Chess Game

Date: 1910
Description: William Middleton, left, plays chess against an unidentified opponent. Williams' son, Forest, with chin in hands, watches with an unidentified man and wom...

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