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Increase A. Lapham

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Description: Formal portrait of Increase Lapham sitting in a chair.
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Manchester's Department Store Photo Studio

Date: 11 29 1944
Description: The photo studio department in Manchester's Department Store. A man is assisting a female customer, while female employees do their work.
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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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University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club

Date: 12 20 1935
Description: Five men from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Camera Club. They are looking at photographs in Porter Butts' office at the Memorial Union.
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W.T. Price Memorial Display

Date: 1897
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of memorial wreath grouping surrounding a draped portrait of W.T. Price. The wreaths have text which read: "...
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Workers with Newspaper Photographs

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Description: Newspaper workers perusing hundreds of photographs. There are three men holding some of the photographs and the rest are mounted on the walls around them.
Postcard

Four Men Playing Cards

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four men sitting at a table playing cards, smoking cigarettes and ...
Postcard

Two Men Playing Cards

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two men sitting at a table playing cards. On the table is a bottle of wine and a glass. The man on the le...
Postcard

Portrait of Two Men

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two well-dressed men, Karl Faust, who is sitting, and Mike Endres, standing. They are wearing suits and h...
Postcard

Two Men Wearing Suits

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Description: Studio portrait of two men, an unidentified man sitting in a chair, and Leo Meier, who is standing and resting his hand on the other man's shoulder. Each m...
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Two Men Pose with Flowers and Photograph

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Description: Two men sit in a photography studio and pose with a photograph of a standing man which is displayed between two vases of flowers on a table in front of a p...
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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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Henry Greencrow, William Hall and Charlie Greengress with Specimens of Taxidermy

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk men wearing suit jackets, trousers, and neckties in front of a painted backdrop. Two are wearing hats a...
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Gerhard and Christine Gesell

Date: 1879
Description: Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch...
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Community Center Photographic Club

Date: 11 10 1949
Description: Three men, acting as judges for the Community Center Photographic color slide contest, view slides while seated at a table. They are, left to right: Robert...
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Good Old Days

Date: 12 20 1949
Description: Helen Meanwell, wearing a red brocaded satin dress which Mrs. Stanley Hanks wore for the University of Wisconsin Junior Prom in 1896, and her fiancé Robert...
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Color Slide Show Judges

Date: 11 16 1950
Description: Three judges select the winning slides for the third annual color slide show held at the Community Center. Left to right are Aaron Bohrod, artist in reside...
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Portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams

Date: 1894
Description: Carte-de-visite of a three-quarter length portrait of Hugh Claiborne Adams, age 18, dressed in coattails with his arm on the back of an elaborately carved ...
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Carl Nelson

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Description: Full-length cabinet card portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Carl Nielson [as written on published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, Volume 1 and on t...
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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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