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| Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, who as an infant survived the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1891. |
| Date: | 08 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, as a young child wearing traditional Indian clothing of a fringed shirt, and pants. She is ... |
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| Description: | Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War. |
| Date: | 08 01 1953 |
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| Description: | Michigan State Professor and Mrs. Charles Loomis with their three adopted Costa Rican daughters, Elizabeth Loomis, Vera Loomis and Laura Loomis. |
| Date: | 04 30 1909 |
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| Description: | Newspaper clipping of prospective parents looking up at children in the windows of the orphan train. The caption reads: "The Arrival of the Babies." |
| Date: | 10 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Clarendon and Elaine Bradley and their two adopted children; Bruce, age 4 and 6 year-old Carla. They adopted them through the Lutheran Welfare Society, a R... |
| Date: | 10 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Timothy and Helen Matthews with their seven month old adopted son, Timothy John. They adopted their child through the Catholic Welfare bureau, a Red Feathe... |
| Date: | 10 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Dean and Betty Colden with their two adopted children; David, age three years and one year old Sally. The couple adopted their children through the Childre... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Lutheran Welfare Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. The society facilitates the adoption of children into families such as the one pictured, find... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Catholic Welfare Bureau is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This agency handles foster care and adoptions and provides counseling to unwed mothers and fam... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Children's Service Society is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It provides services to unwed mothers and facilitates adoptions and foster placements of ch... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype of Lydia Remsen Draper sitting in a chair, (Mrs. Lyman C. Draper, Dr. Draper's first wife) and adopted daughter Helen, (died 1864... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | A Korean toddler is facing the camera with teary eyes. She is being held by a woman who is nuzzling her face to the child's and has her eyes closed. This p... |
| Date: | 09 04 1967 |
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| Description: | A family posing together indoors; the father is bouncing a young girl standing on his knees. Caption reads: "Mrs. Alan S. Smith and her two sons watched as... |
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