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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man, Hoonch-Schad-E-Gab (Big Bear), aiming a bow and arrow and wearing a fur hat with feathers... |
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| Description: | Man petting dog, who is sitting on a chair, inside the photographic studio. There is a large studio camera on the left, several pieces of studio furniture,... |
| Date: | 04 02 1987 |
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| Description: | Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Journal photographer with display of cameras and flash units. He is dramatically demonstrating the use of flash powder. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of three standing men, two wearing matching straw hats, and vests with trousers, and the other holding a camera on a stool. They are posing... |
| Date: | 02 04 1948 |
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| Description: | A young woman serving as the photographer's assistant is standing beside a woman sitting in a chair wearing a hat, and a Farm and Home Week name tag. She i... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| 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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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of a man with a large moustache and trimmed beard wearing a Wild West outfit, including a wide-brimmed hat, fringed shirt, and ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a child as Cupid wearing wings and holding a bow and arrow, posed leaning against an owl and sitting on a tree stump. |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite of Major General Abner Doubleday in uniform, sitting, and his wife Mary, standing, wearing a cape over her dress. |
| Date: | 01 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Jean Henriksen, a Madison Capital Times librarian, poses as the queen of the Wisconsin Press Photographers Association at the group's meeting in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle is sitting on the USS "Boxer" with cameras around her neck and luggage at her side. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of Harold and Vivian Hone posing with a camera. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A young girl, Tannisse Taylor, poses with a camera on a tripod. She is wearing a white dress, black stockings, black shoes and has a white bow in her hair.... |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of a man posing with a camera in front of a painted background. He wears a white shirt, suspenders and a hat. |
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| Description: | Civil War soldier Micheal Stutzman who served in the Wisconsin Infantry, 50th Company F. |
| Date: | 04 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Richard Brobst sitting on a couch. Opened packages of photography equipment are next to him. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A candid portrait of Paul Vanderbilt in the field with his large format camera set up. He is standing next to a State Historical Society of Wisconsin vehic... |
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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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