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Daisy Bates at a Book Promotion

Date: 1962
Description: Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni...
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Clara Middleton at Home

Date: 1905
Description: A portrait, possibly a self-portrait, of Clara Middleton seated in her home. She wears a large hat; her gloves rest in her lap. There is a jardiniere with ...
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Forest and Joanna Middleton

Date: 1898
Description: Forest Middleton plays "Guess Who?" with his grandmother. He stands on a small footstool; she is seated in a chair holding a newspaper or magazine. On the...
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Shirley Widmer

Date: 2004
Description: This photograph and the article on the opposite page appeared in the "Mayville/Lomira News" on September 30, 2004. The caption reads as follows: "Shirley W...
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Photo Playhouse

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Description: Tintype of Estella Moessner Goldenberger of Madison, (in the window), with her friend Celia Gibson posing in front of a painted backdrop.
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Woman Posing with Dog

Date: 1888
Description: Woman in a long dress wearing a glove and holding a book [?] in her hand posing before a painted backdrop. There is a small white dog seated on a fur rug a...
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Albums — 1946 Style

Date: 1946
Description: View of page 71 from an issue of "Popular Photography" magazine. The article demonstrates Jim Widmer's dry mounting method for organizing his photographic ...
Postcard

Three Women Posing Around Table

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of three women gathered around a table in front of a painted backdrop. One woman rests her forearm on her friends shoulder and ...
Postcard

Two Women Reading a Book

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women sitting in front of a painted backdrop sharing a book. Both women are wearing hair combs. One woman is looking at ...
Postcard

When Will We Three Meet Again

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of three women surrounding a table with a book on it, in front of a painted backdrop. The middle woman is standing and pointing at the book...
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Studio Portrait of a Discussion Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men and eight women posed sitting with books/magazines, The Intermediate Quarterly, possibly a discus...
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Studio Portrait of a Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men and eight women posed standing in a row. Man on the far right holding a book is Haas Johnson, six...
Postcard

Studio Portrait of Three Women

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is sitting, holding a book; the other two are standing on either side ...
Photograph

Bresson Book

Date: 10 2004
Description: Shirley Widmer holds a book that features photographs by French photographer, Henri Cartier Bresson. The book was purchased for $15.00 in 1950 and then sol...
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Four Women in a Parlor

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Description: Interior portrait of four women posing sitting and standing in a room next to an organ and a book shelf.
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Indoor Portrait of Woman and Dog

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Description: Portrait of a woman posing standing and petting a dog that is sitting on a chair near a window. A woodburning stove is in the foreground on the left. There...
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Woman Sitting on Sofa

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Description: Indoor portrait of a woman posing sitting on a sofa. She is wearing a dark-colored skirt and light-colored blouse, near a pillow that reads: "Reveries of a...
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Lucy Rumsey Holt at her Desk

Date: 05 1914
Description: With her side to the camera, Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at her desk in her bedroom. Sunlight is streaming in from the window on the left. The bedroom wall...

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