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Mrs. Ketch Ka Mi

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Description: Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Ketch ka mi, daughter of Potowatomi Indian Chief John Young.
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My Mamma Uses Atlas Flour

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Description: A little girl with corkscrew curls poses glumly. She wears a bib advertising Atlas Flour.
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Brigadier General Joseph Bailey

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Description: Brigadier General Joseph Bailey was known for the rescue of the Red River Fleet by building a dam to float the stranded ships out. He also founded the smal...
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Young Girl Holding Rose

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young girl standing on a chair, holding a rose in her hand. The young girl's hair is pulled...
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Portrait of Girl and Dalmation Dog

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a girl standing with her arm on a chair in which a Dalmation dog sits. The girl's hair is pul...
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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Studio portrait of two women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is seated and one is standing, are they are dressed in fashionable dresses. The woma...
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Girl with Certificate

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young girl with a scroll on a table, probably a graduation diploma. She is wearing all white and has a fa...
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Portrait of Young Girl

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Faust Fuller, dressed in black with a black bow in her hair.
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Girl Sitting in Wicker Chair

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young girl wearing a dark dress with her hair pulled back in fashionable bows. She is sitting on an ornat...
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Woman Holding Violin

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman sitting in a chair holding a violin on her knee. She is holding the bow in her other hand. She we...
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Two Young Girls Wearing Matching Dresses

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young girls, both dressed in plaid dresses and white bows in their hair.
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Two Children and a Rose

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Description: Studio portrait of two children, Liane Faust Hilgers and Harold Pick, sitting on stools in front of a painted backdrop. Harold is holding up a rose and Lia...
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Woman Standing with Violin

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of woman posing with her violin and bow. She wears a large white bow in her hair.
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Girl in White Dress

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of a young girl in a white dress, standing in front of a painted backdrop.
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Girls on Their Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of two girls on the occasion of their graduation. They are dressed in white dresses with bows in their hair, cor...
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Boy on His Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of a boy on the occasion of his graduation. He is dressed in jacket and knickerbockers (knickers) and holds a ro...
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Viola Festge Hering on Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of Viola Festge Hering on the occasion of her graduation. She is standing and is wearing a pleated w...
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Young Woman on Her Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of a young woman on the occasion of her graduation. She wears a white dress with a corsage pinned to...
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Lanona Petersilie Wipperfurth on Her Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of Lanona Petersilie Wipperfurth on the occasion of her graduation. She is wearing a white dress, 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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