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Family Portrait

Date: 1941
Description: Copy of a family portrait that includes a father, daughter and three sons. Two people on the right are only partially visible.
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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.
Postcard

Young Men and Women Posing with Nun

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a nun, one young man and five young women in front of a painted backdrop. The children are all ho...
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African American Man Standing Next to Young Girl on Pony

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Description: Cabinet card of an African American man, wearing a formal suit, standing next to a young girl mounted side saddle on a pony. She is reading a book and has ...
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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 Small Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man posed sitting surrounded by a standing woman, girl and boy.
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Studio Portrait of Large Group

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a man, woman, boy and girl posed sitting and surrounded by two men, three women, two boys and a girl.
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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 Laib Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a large family, probably the Laib family. Laib was a Civil War veteran and gunsmith and had a shop on Tow...
Postcard

Man and Two Children

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a seated man with a boy and a girl, one on each knee. They are posed in front of a painted backdrop.
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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...
Photograph

Peter Schuster Family

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

Car and Passengers in front of Witt Studio

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Description: Photographic postcard of a man, woman and young girl posing in their Buick convertible in front of the Matthew Witt Photographic Studio. Another woman stan...

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