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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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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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Staged Scene

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Description: A scene staged in front of a backdrop. A man on his knees is leaning over the seat of a chair that has been turned sideways. Syl hangs on his back while th...
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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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Nyhus Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of eleven members of the Nyhus family, including four women, four men, and three young boys.
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John Johnston and Daughter Hilda

Date: 1884
Description: Cabinet card of Hilda Johnston (1883-1974), age one year, and her father, John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker.
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Rogers Family

Date: 1917
Description: Portrait of some of the William Henry Rogers family. Pictured are Maude Rogers Taylor, her parents, William and Martha, and her second son, Lynn H. Taylor.
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Studio Portrait of a Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man and woman posed sitting. The man is holding a small girl, and is surrounded by a man, two young wom...
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Studio Portrait of Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman and boy posed sitting on a stone wall, near a young man, boy and girl. Probably Charles Stei...
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Studio Portrait of the Mills Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly man and woman posing sitting surrounded by two seated young girls and five men, probably the H...
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Studio Portrait of the Mills Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly man and woman posing sitting surrounded two seated young girls and five men, probably the H.B....
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Gunder Larson and Family

Date: 1888
Description: Full-length studio portrait of the Gunder Larson Family. Front row: Mary Jane Rodgers Larson, Arthur Larson, Gunder Larson. Back row: Margaret Slossen Lars...
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Peter Schuster Family

Date: 1870
Description: A family portrait of the Peter Schuster Family in front of a painted backdrop.

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