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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

Date: 05 07 1913
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of a woman in Ho-Chunk regalia wrapped in a blanket, with a child on her back. The child is wearing a fur hat, and the woman...
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"Dell Queen" Entering Devil's Elbow

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Description: A woman holding a baby sits near a little girl on rocks looking down on the "Dell Queen" steamboat entering the Narrows at Devil's Elbow.
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Child

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Description: Studio portrait of Ho-Chunk woman and child.
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Mountain Wolf Woman

Date: 1907
Description: Studio portrait of Mountain Wolf Woman, also known as Stella Blowsnake Whitepine Stacy (HayAhChoWinKah), sitting and holding her two daughters, Josephine W...
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Woman and Two Infants

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Description: Portrait of a woman holindg two babies in her lap. The babies appear to be twins, and are wearing caps and gowns.
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Baby with Bottle

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Description: Studio portrait of a baby suckling on a bottle. The child is sitting upright dressed in a white gown, with his right hand resting on the chair arm, and his...
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Schaick with Son Shirley

Date: 1898
Description: Studio portrait of a man, woman, and child sitting in a rowboat in front of a painted backdrop. Probably Mr. and Mrs. Charles Van Schaick and their son, Sh...
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Osage Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Black Bow's wife, with infant in a papoose, and Saucy Chief's squaw.
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Native American Family

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Black Dog, wife, and papoose sitting.
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Osage Women and Girl

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Osage women with an infant girl.
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Osage Woman and Child

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an Osage woman carrying a small child on her back.
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Osage Infant

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an Osage infant, wrapped up in an infant carrier that is resting on a chair.
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Osage Women and Children

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two Osage women holding children on their backs in infant carriers, with a young girl sitting between the...
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Twin Osage Papooses

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Description: A woman stands behind twin Osage papooses in a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. The infants are tightly wrapped up. This image comes from an...
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Baby in Christening Gown

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified European American infant sitting up on a high chair. The infant is wearing a long christe...
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Unidentified Woman with Infant

Date: 1848
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated woman in a long-sleeve printed dress and shoulder-length side curls, holding a sleeping baby on her lap with her righ...
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Nettie McCormick and Son Robert

Date: 1864
Description: Oval-framed portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), and her son Robert (1863-1865). Nettie, a well-known philanthropist, was the wife of Chicago i...
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Anita McCormick Blaine, Emmons Blaine, and Emmons Blaine, Jr.

Date: 1891
Description: Group portrait of Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954), her husband Emmons Blaine (1857-1892), and their young son Emmons, Jr. (1890-1918).
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Group Portrait of Native Americans

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Description: A studio portrait of a group of Native Americans. A woman in a dress holds an infant in her lap, a man stands behind her, and two young men, one standing a...

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