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Immigrant Women and Children

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Description: Two immigrant women in headscarves pose with a baby and a young boy. They are both holding baskets and bundles, and are standing on a platform.
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Alpha Phi Sorority Garden Tea

Date: 05 16 1948
Description: Alpha Phi sorority, 28 Langdon Street, was the site of a garden party for all sorority women on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Left to right: ...
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Jaycettes Style Show

Date: 03 04 1952
Description: Miss Patricia Johnson of 1 Langdon Street wearing shorts and a sleeveless blouse, and Mrs. Howard (Mary) Norris of 1406 Drake Street wearing shorts and a j...
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Women with Hats

Date: 1910
Description: A woman and two girls stand on a porch wearing large hats. Potted plants line the porch.
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Dave & Pauline Coleman

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Description: Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd...
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Violet Lee Dousman and Fellow Travelers in Egypt

Date: 1896
Description: Group portrait including Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 4th from left) and her fellow travelers on a trip to Egypt.
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Soledad O'Brien

Date: 11 06 2013
Description: Posed, seated portrait of national television journalist and featured speaker Soledad O’Brien at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
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Shirley on the Back Porch of George Washington's Mount Vernon

Date: 1950
Description: Shirley Krueger standing near one of the columns on the piazza. Several chairs are lined up against the wall to the left of an open doorway.
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Outside the Lincoln Memorial

Date: 1950
Description: View of the Lincoln Memorial from across Lincoln Memorial Circle. Several women and a man are crossing the street behind several cars that have driven by. ...
Historical Object

Fargo Family

Date: 07 1900
Description: A decorated album page features two photographs of members of the Fargo family posing near the ornate porch of their home. In the photograph on the left, F...
Historical Object

Fargo Children

Date: 1900
Description: An album page with four mounted photographs is decorated with hand-painted pink flowers and foliage. In the photograph at top right, Louise Mears (Mrs. Fra...
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"The Floor Below"

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Description: Tom Moore and Mabel Normand are sitting next to each other on a bench in a still from the film "The Floor Below." Normand is drying her eye with Moore's co...
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Group Portrait of the Division of Historic Preservation

Date: 09 20 1990
Description: Group portrait of the Division of Historic Preservation at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Names, back row, l to r: Dan Duchrow, Rick Dexter, Brian McCor...
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Checking In

Date: 10 18 1984
Description: A man, a woman, and four children are standing in front of building with an arch and columns. They are holding signs that read: "Can We Both LOVE Our Enemi...
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Colonial Dame Meeting

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Description: Group portrait of twenty-six women in hats and coats posing outdoors in front of a building with a stone balustrade and columns framing the entrance. The w...
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Wisconsin Delegation to 56th American Federation of Labor Convention

Date: 11 1936
Description: Group portrait of 22 people posing in front of a building. A caption on the back of the image identifies many of the people, though it does not seem to acc...
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Bavarian Costume

Date: 07 01 1965
Description: One man and two women are posing holding glasses on the steps at the entrance of a building. One woman is sitting on a stone planter. Caption reads: "'W...
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Alfred Holt and Aunt Nell

Date: 1920
Description: Alfred Holt, in uniform, and his aunt Ellen Holt are standing in front of the I.P and Mary Mathilda Rumsey family home, which was called "The Evergreens." ...

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