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Children Posing with Nun

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Description: Studio portrait of three children with flower bouquets in front of a painted backdrop. One boy is seated and two girls are standing. All of the children ar...
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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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Portrait of Girl and Dalmation Dog

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a girl standing with her arm on a chair in which a Dalmation dog sits. The girl's hair is pul...
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Girl with Certificate

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young girl with a scroll on a table, probably a graduation diploma. She is wearing all white and has a fa...
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Portrait of Young Girl

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Faust Fuller, dressed in black with a black bow in her hair.
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Girl Sitting in Wicker Chair

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of young girl wearing a dark dress with her hair pulled back in fashionable bows. She is sitting on an ornat...
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Two Young Girls Wearing Matching Dresses

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young girls, both dressed in plaid dresses and white bows in their hair.
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Two Children and a Rose

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Description: Studio portrait of two children, Liane Faust Hilgers and Harold Pick, sitting on stools in front of a painted backdrop. Harold is holding up a rose and Lia...
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Four Young People with Blackberries

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young people. From left to right: Teresa Kalscheur Endres, Frank Kalscheur, Julia Kalscheur, and Ter...
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Girls on Their Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of two girls on the occasion of their graduation. They are dressed in white dresses with bows in their hair, cor...
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Boy on His Graduation

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Description: Photographic postcard of a studio portrait of a boy on the occasion of his graduation. He is dressed in jacket and knickerbockers (knickers) and holds a ro...
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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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Xmas and New Year Greetings

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday postcard of a young girl holding a bouquet of violets and surrounded by sprigs of holly. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder dress with a pink bow. ...
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Man, Woman and Girl

Date: 1930
Description: Group of three people standing outside on a sidewalk in front of a stone dwelling with a porch and steps behind them. A man holds a bottle, ready to pour i...
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Young Man and Girl

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Elizabeth and Clemens Hellebrand in front of a painted backdrop. He is sitting in a chair, and she is standing and resting h...
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Portrait of Five Teenagers

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of five teenagers. Three boys and one girl are standing and one girl is sitting in a chair. The girls are wearing dresses and t...
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Girls Feeding Geese

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Description: Photographic postcard of three girls feeding corn to a flock of geese. Two girls are standing, and one girl is sitting on the left. All three girls have bo...
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First Lesson in Wrestling

Date: 1936
Description: Text on front reads: "First Lesson in Wrestling, Camp Highlands, on Plum Lake, Sayner, Wisconsin." A teacher begins a class in wrestling with a group of st...
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Second Ward School

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Second Ward School, South Milwaukee, Wis." A brick and stone two story schoolhouse with the students posing on the sidewalk in front.

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