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Gesell Family Burlesque

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Description: The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi...
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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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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Schaick with Son Shirley

Date: 1898
Description: Studio portrait of a man, woman, and child sitting in a rowboat in front of a painted backdrop. Probably Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Schaick and their son, Sh...
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Portrait of Yeatman Sisters

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of the Yeatman sisters resting their arms on a piece of furniture in front of a painted backdrop.
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Mother and Child

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Description: Studio portrait of mother and child in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is seated and wearing a black dress, the toddler is standing and dressed in w...
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Six Bollenbeck Sisters

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Description: Studio portrait of the Bollenbeck sisters, three of whom were nuns, in front of a painted backdrop. First row from left to right: Mary Haack, Sister Claudi...
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Brunner Muskat Sisters

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Description: Studio portrait of, from left to right, Mary Brunner Muskat, Ida Brunner Muskat and Laura Brunner Zander standing in front of a painted backdrop.
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Four Young People with Blackberries

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young people. From left to right: Teresa Kalscheur Endres, Frank Kalscheur, Julia Kalscheur, and Ter...
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George Staty, Mary Staty Marx & Margaret Staty

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio group portrait of (left to right) George Staty, Mary Staty Marx and Margaret Staty. They are standing in front of a paint...
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Elizabeth Schoepp, Anton Dahmen, and Eva Dahmen Bowar

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio group portrait of (left to right) " Elizabeth "Lizzie" Schoepp, Anton Joseph Dahmen, and Eva Dahmen Bowar. Eva holds a to...
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Staty Family Portrait

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of Elizabeth Dohn Staty, her husband Wolfgang Staty and their infant Martha Staty. They are standing in front of...
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Mike Endres and Katie Endres Mick

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of (brother and sister?) Mike Endres and Katie Endres Mick, in front of a painted backdrop. They are both wearin...
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Mother and Children

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of an unidentified mother and her two children. The children both wear white dresses. They are posed in front of...
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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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Portrait of Floyd and Marjorie Quinney

Date: 1923
Description: Studio portrait of Marjorie and Floyd Quinney.
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Holloway Family

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James and Mary Bray Holloway and their children, Lizzie and Will.
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Composite Layout of Family Portraits with Local Views

Date: 1890
Description: Composite layout combining family portraits with local views. Probably the family of Gerhard Gesell in Alma.
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Merry Christmas

Date: 1955
Description: H.H. Bennett Studio Christmas portrait of two women, Miriam and Ruth, daughters of H.H. Bennett, and one man, Oliver Reese, posed with many cameras, some o...
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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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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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