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Four Panel Pamphlet with Photographs

Date: 1960
Description: A two-sided four panel folded pamphlet. The photographs are, from left to right: view looking out of an open doorway toward two children titled: "Like Birt...
Drawing

Pyramide de Cholula

Date: 1816
Description: The four-stepped, low-rising Pyramid of Cholula, covered in sparse vegetation, stands in a flat valley, surrounded by distant mountains. A stairway leads u...
Photograph

Baby on the Scale

Date: 09 1932
Description: A baby, probably Donald Holt, Jr., is being weighed on a small scale outside. There is a blanket, with a geometric pattern, underneath the scale.
Photograph

Bathtime

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Description: A young girl is sitting in a galvanized washtub on the floor in front of an oil burning stove and an armchair. Flowered wallpaper covers the walls. [The bo...
Photograph

"Tiger Woman"

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Description: A nude woman, with long hair, is standing and posing against a backdrop. Her body has been painted to look like the face of a tiger, with stripes on her ar...
Photograph

Gathering of Men

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Description: Group portrait of a group of men posing sitting and standing around a table. There are several female nude photographs hanging on the wall behind them.
Photograph

Swimmers at Black River

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Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view of a nude man standing on a rock bluff along a river, two men standing in the water below, and another man in mid-air j...
Photograph

Black River Swimmers

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Description: Copy photograph of an outdoor view of two nude men and three boys standing on a rock formation above a river. Identified as the swimming hole in the Black ...
Photograph

Swimming Hole on Black River

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Description: Copy photograph of an elevated view towards a nude man standing on a rock bluff along a river, and two other men in the water below and on the left. Anothe...
Historical Object

Stuart and Dorothy

Date: 1899
Description: Hand-painted poppies adorn an album page which features a photograph of Stuart, left, and Dorothy Fargo. In the photograph, Stuart is naked and has placed ...
Photograph

State Street Nude Picketing

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Description: Rear view of several picketers walking nude down a sidewalk along State Street holding signs.
Photograph

William O. Petersen

Date: 1928
Description: William O. Petersen, youngest son of William F. and Alma Schmidt Petersen, plays at the Geneva Lake shore. There is a picnic basket in the background and a...
Photograph

Two Girls

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of two girls. Both are unclothed except for a strip of fabric around their waist tied with a bundle of leaves. In her journal, Carrie describes Ce...
Photograph

Posing By the Swimming Hole

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Three officers of General Walter Krueger's staff stand on a log in front of a swimming hole located on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (p...
Photograph

Mountain Swimming Hole in the South Pacific

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Robert Doyle's caption for Image ID: 99742 says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers i...
Photograph

Contrasting Tans on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert ...
Photograph

Sun Bath on Buster Island

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Two men enjoy a nude sun bath on Buster Island in the Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, in the South Pacific. The man on the right, wearing only boots, is...
Photograph

Happy Days!

Date: 1944
Description: A photograghic card created by Robert Doyle to wish friends and family "Iamu Mwasawa!" A smiling, quarter-length portrait of Robert Doyle in uniform appear...
Photograph

Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
Photograph

"Windy City Kitty"

Date: 11 17 1943
Description: Mechanic Sergeant Raymond Smith of Ontario, Wisconsin, stands next to the nose art, "Windy City Kitty," depicting a naked woman in the "pin-up style" on th...

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