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Ethel Miller Models Skirt

Date: 10 08 1953
Description: Ethel Miller models a skirt made by her mother, Elizabeth (Mrs. Howard C.) Miller. The photograph was taken to accompany an article in the Wisconsin Sta...
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Esther A. Elmer

Date: 1935
Description: Esther Elmer, 20, poses with jars of fruits and vegetables which she has canned. A fancy carpet is hanging behind her as a backdrop. She wrote on the rever...
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Studio Portrait of Young European American Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified young European American woman posed standing. She is wearing a light-colored ...
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Portrait of Three Girls and a Nun

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a nun seated in a chair and three girls posed behind her. The nun is wearing a habit, wimple ...
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Portrait of Three Young Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of three young women posed in front of a painted backdrop. The middle woman is seated and the others stand on each side behind ...
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Postmaster and Family

Date: 1910
Description: A book in his hands, Postmaster Ed King sits in his wallpapered living room, staring past his wife to the window. Edna, his daughter, is seated at the pian...
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Teens and Christmas Tree

Date: 12 24 2013
Description: Two teen girls gaze at a Christmas tree with gifts underneath as they sit on the floor in the Temp home. One girl is wearing a turquoise dress and black ti...
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School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf

Date: 1885
Description: Formal group portrait of the students attending the Milwaukee Day School for the Oral Instruction of the Deaf. The first public day school for the deaf, es...
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Sunday Paper

Date: 1934
Description: The photographer's three children, from left, Herbert E., Philip, and Barbara Brumder reading newspapers while sitting on the newly constructed screened po...

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