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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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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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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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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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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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Portrait of a Young Woman

Date: 1925
Description: A full-length studio portrait of a young woman, possibly a dancer, in costume.
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Carlos W. Wellman

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Lieutenant Carlos W. Wellman (or Willman), Companies A and K, 37th Massachusetts Infantry, standing in full uniform...
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Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: Jennie Rooney, performer and aerialist with the Ringling Brothers Circus, poses in a sequined costume and tights with a net butterfly in her hair.
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Edith Grignon

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Description: Hand-colored carte-de-visite portrait of Edith Acker with hat and parasol. She married Rossiter Grignon.
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Strong Lady

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Description: Triptych studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman in a circus costume lifting weights over her head.
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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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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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Two Women Holding Hands

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of two women wearing dresses in front of a painted backdrop. They are facing each other and holding ...
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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Photographic postcard of a full-length studio portrait of two women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is seated and is one standing, and they are w...
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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women, one seated and one standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are both wearing fashionable dresses. Their name...
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Portrait of a Mother and her Two Daughters

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Description: The woman, Mary Zehnpfennig Bachmayer, is seated in this studio portrait. Her daughters Lucy and Kunigunda Helene stand next to her.
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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 ...
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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is seated and one is standing. One of the women is Annie Karls Dohm.
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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 ...
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Portrait of a Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a standing woman dressed in a dark dress in front of a painted backdrop.

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