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Lunch at the Lumber Camp

Date: 1890
Description: View up slope towards a group of men posing in the snow alongside a table with pots and dishes on it. An ox with a yoke and a pair of wooden staves is stan...
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2 Ox Power Jammer at Work

Date: 1890
Description: Five men are posing on or near a tall stack of logs on a sled, with more logs being added. Three of the men are carrying cant hooks, and two horses are yok...
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Four Horses Pulling a Haul of Logs

Date: 1890
Description: Five men are posing on or near a sled piled high with logs, which is being hauled by a team of four horses.
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Oxen in Harness with Haul of Logs

Date: 1887
Description: Seven men are posing on or near a haul of logs loaded onto a sled. Some of the men are holding cant hooks. A team of oxen are yoked to the sled.
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A Stump Speech by Jeannette Holt

Date: 1898
Description: Jeannette Holt giving a stump speech on the porch at Island Lodge on Archibald Lake. Caption reads: "A stump speech by Jeannette."
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Racine Baseball Team

Date: 08 01 1890
Description: Group portrait of men posing outdoors; a few of the men are holding baseball bats or catcher's mitts. The photograph has a number written on each man to id...
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George Brumder, Sons and Friends

Date: 1890
Description: An outdoor group portrait of George Brumder, sitting in a bent willow chair at far left; Dr. Herman Duemling, sitting in the center, and Julius Andrae, sit...
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Family Group at Pine Lake

Date: 1895
Description: Members of George Brumder's family posing on the porch of the summer house on Pine Lake. They are, from left, Henriette Brandhorst (Mrs. George) Brumder; H...
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Portrait of Jeannette and Alfred Holt on the Island Lodge Porch

Date: 08 1898
Description: On the screened porch at Island Lodge, baby Alfred Holt is sitting in an infant-sized wooden rocking chair with sister Jeannette standing at his side. She ...
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Portrait of Baby Alfred Holt in a Victorian Wicker Chair

Date: 07 1898
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Alfred Holt sitting in a Victorian wicker chair. He is looking at the camera and smiling. Caption reads: ...
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Unidentified Women

Date: 1893
Description: Two unidentified women posing together. The woman on the left is sitting on a table or bench, and is wearing a hat and a coat with a cape. The other woman ...
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Me an' Billy

Date: 1899
Description: A toddler wearing an oversized straw hat is sitting on a box on the ground. There is a bottle in the toddler's pocket. There is a goat is standing next to ...
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Elizabeth, Edward, and Benjamin Styles

Date: 1880
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a family, with a child standing between seated parents. These are Benjamin Woolsey Styles, his wife Eliza...
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Frank Cramer as Faust

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Frank Cramer, in costume as Faust from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust.
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Milwaukeeans as Characters from Faust

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Jim [James] Whaling, Frank Cramer, and Lina Martin in costume as Mephistopheles, Faust, and Marguerite from Johann Wolfgang von...
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William Grant Fitch in Unidentified Costume

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of William Grant Fitch, in costume.
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Children Holding Hands

Date: 1869
Description: Detail of portrait of two unidentified children holding hands while posing on homemade fancy chairs. The girl is dressed in a hand-me-down dress cut from a...
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Katharine F. Sherwood as Dorothea

Date: 04 21 1876
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Katharine F. Sherwood, in costume as Dorothea from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem Hermann and Dorothea.
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Eliza Scidmore with Mrs. Waldo

Date: 06 1898
Description: Mrs. Waldo, Mrs. Eliza Scidmore (in center holding a puppy in her lap), and an unidentified woman each sitting in rickshaws, which are also known as jinrik...
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Bicycle Team at Camp Randall

Date: 1899
Description: Three men posing with their bicycles along a picket fence. Caption reads: "On Camp Randall, 1899. Bicycle Team." The name "Sumner" is written in the lower ...

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