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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Julia and Julius Jacobson at the Museum

Date: 1912
Description: Well-dressed Julia and Julius Jacobson looking at Indian artifacts at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum during their wedding trip to Madison...
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Portrait of John and Mary Dick

Date: 1915
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man and woman in front of a painted backdrop. The man is posing sitting, and the woman is standing beside him and...
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Father #31;— Mother Golden Wedding

Date: 06 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Conrad and Mary Schmitt's (Emma Gillett's parents) Golden Wedding Anniversary.
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Conrad Schmitt Family

Date: 1916
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Conrad Schmitt family. Sherwin and Emma (nee Schmitt) Gillett are standing on the far left. Sherwin is holding infant son, Lo...
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Family Automobile

Date: 1910
Description: Winter scene with Dr. Joseph Smith and his wife, Mary E. Smith, sitting in an automobile parked in front of a house. Snow is on the ground and the automob...
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Dr. Joseph Smith and His Wife

Date: 1919
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith and his wife, Mary, pose next to trees by a rivers edge.
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Dinner with Family

Date: 1910
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith and Mary E. Smith seated at a set dinner table with Harriet Millard and Harriet Millard Smith. On the table is a bouquet of flowers and a ...
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Family Wedding Portrait with Framed Wreath

Date: 1917
Description: Studio family wedding portrait in front of a painted background with a framed wreath in the center. The wreath is celebrating the wedding of the bride and ...
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Posing in Sailor Uniforms

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor portrait of Edgar Krueger, Jennie Krueger Bruetzman, and Ernst Bruetzman in sailor uniforms with cigarettes in their mouths. Edgar and Ernst are in...
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In a 1917 Chevrolet

Date: 1919
Description: Edgar Krueger sitting in the drivers seat of a 1917 Chevrolet while Jennie Krueger Bruetzman and Ernst Bruetzman are sitting together in the back seat. All...
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Anniversary Portrait

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an elderly couple for their 50th anniversary. The woman is sitting, and the man is standing. ...
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Frank & Anna Kreuser

Date: 1914
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a woman and a man standing and posing together around a pedestal. The man is wearing a suit with a corsage of flowers, and t...
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George and Thekla

Date: 03 1913
Description: George F. and Thekla Brumder sharing a smile while sitting on a bench at a rustic table outdoors in Puerto Rico. Both are wearing light-colored clothing an...
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Lucy and W.A. Holt Standing Together Outside

Date: 1918
Description: Lucy and W.A. Holt, wife and husband, are looking at each other while standing on the lawn with trees, shrubs, and a building in the background. Lucy Holt ...
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Olivia Monona with First Husband

Date: 1915
Description: Olivia Monona sitting in a carriage with her first husband, Clarence Johnson.
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New Waverly

Date: 04 09 1911
Description: Lucy Rumsey Holt is driving her new electric car with her husband, W.A. Holt, who is sitting in the passenger seat.

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