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Women in Motorboat

Date: 1941
Description: Two bathing suit-clad women demonstrating their Evinrude motorboat on a Wisconsin lake.
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Woman and Girls in McCormick Works' Community Garden

Date: 08 1932
Description: Mother and her two daughters at work in the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Har...
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Jennie Krueger Bruetzman and Tramp

Date: 12 1905
Description: Jennie Krueger sitting in a rocking chair on a porch holding her cat Tramp, who is dressed in baby clothes.
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Krueger Children Amongst Cattails

Date: 08 1906
Description: View across water towards Edgar and Jennie Krueger playing with cattails on the shoreline along Lime Kiln Pond.
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Young Adult Club with Wishing Well

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Five members of the Young Adult Club dropping coins into a wishing well during a dance at the Community Center to aid the March of Dimes. Pictured left to ...
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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
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Drum Majorette

Date: 06 26 1948
Description: Mrs. Schafer (?) in a drum majorette costume in a marching position with a baton and wearing boots, posing outdoors near a house.
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Hattie Fels Owen

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor portrait of Hattie Fels Owen wearing a white suit and hat and sitting in a wicker rocking chair. She is holding a cigar in her right hand. Behind h...
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Woman Posed Outdoors

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Description: Full-length portrait of a woman wearing a long dress, posed standing in the grass in front of a wooden wall.
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Copy Photograph of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing in a field, wrapped in a fringed shawl.
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Portrait of Magda Herzberger as a Child

Date: 1930
Description: Magda Moses Herzberger standing in front of foliage in a light-colored dress with her left hand positioned on her hip. Location identified as a resort in ...
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Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Woman and Girl

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux woman posed outdoors standing with a Native American/Sioux girl. Both are dressed in regalia. The photograph is ...
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Falls at Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in the foreground, and a man and woman sit on a log over the stream in the background at the Parfrey's Glen waterfall near Devil's Lake.
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Messenger's Spring

Date: 1906
Description: Four men, identified as Charles E. Brown of Milwaukee, Joyce W. Caron, H.E. Cole (second from right), and A.B. Stout, all of Baraboo, rest at Messenger's S...
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Man Riding Bareback in Marsh

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Description: A man wearing a hat, possibly Ho-Chunk, is mounted bareback on a horse knee-deep in water in a marsh.
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Ho-Chunk Man Paddling Canoe

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Description: Ho-Chunk man in a canoe on a river holding up an oar. Just out of frame on the left is a woman, who is perhaps holding a child.
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Ho-Chunk Man Performing Handstand

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Description: Ho-Chunk man performing a handstand in front of two Ho-Chunk men standing on the left. There is a child sitting in one of several horses horse-drawn wagons...
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David Goodvillage Standing on Snowy Ground with Horse

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Description: David Goodvillage (WauHeTonChoEKah), standing with his horse who is loaded with supplies, including cattail mats, snowshoes and canvases, for a hunting and...
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Ho-Chunk Tribesmen Luke Green and David Good Village

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Description: Ho-Chunk man wearing hat mounted on horse. He is holding what appears to be a glass bottle in his right hand. Another Ho-Chunk man is lying face down acros...
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Copy Photograph of George Standing Water

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in a field, holding an object in his left hand. He is wearing regalia including a long bandoleer which appears to have be...

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