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Man Demonstrating Gelatin Duplicating Equipment

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Description: A studio portrait of a seated man on a chair wearing a suit jacket, vest, and trousers. He is demonstrating gelatin duplicating equipment on paper in front...
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Tar Paper Shack at a Construction Site

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Description: View looking up towards a small building standing at the top of a slope. Equipment and piles of building material surround the tar paper shack. Probably a ...
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Merrillan Street Scene

Date: 1931
Description: View down a commercial street. The shops on the street include: a drugstore, the City Hotel, the post office, the Merrillan Home Bakery, and the State Bank...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man Holding Paper Fan

Date: 1898
Description: Studio portrait of Sam Wilson aka George Walkingcloud sitting on a stone wall. He is holding a paper fan in his right hand with an illustration of a boat. ...
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Lunch Room

Date: 1927
Description: View of the facade of the Lunch Room restaurant, located near a cobblestone train platform. Earl Andrew is listed as the proprietor.
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Studio Portrait of a Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing sitting and wearing a dark dress in front of a painted backdrop. Probably Nellie Eagle, the wife of Tom Wallace....
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Sponsored Float

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Description: View across unpaved street towards a wagon pulled by a team of six horses advertising "The People's Drugstore" under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Pa...
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After a Parade

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Description: Exterior portrait of a wagon pulled by a team of four horses and under a banner that reads "Wall Paper and Paints." A marching band is gathered on a sidewa...
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Hotel Campbell

Date: 1927
Description: View from road of a man standing in front of the Campbell Hotel, located next door to the Lunch Room. Earl Andrews is listed as the proprietor. A sign pain...
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Railroad Yards

Date: 1926
Description: View along railroad tracks towards the Merrillan depot and train. The Hotel Campbell is located on the left. A group of children and adults are sitting out...
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Studio Portrait of Two Women in a Prop Row Boat

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Description: A studio portrait of two women posing sitting in a row boat prop in the middle of painted scenery as the background and foreground. Both women are wearing ...
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Group of People Posing at a Mill

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of six women, two men, and a dog posing sitting and standing near the water way of a mill.
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Copy Photograph of Annie Davis and Little Bear Woman

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman posing standing on the left with her left hand on the right shoulder of a Ho-Chunk woman posing si...
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Studio Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified women. They are all wearing dark-colored dresses and hats and are posing around a prop...
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Studio Portrait of Three Ho-Chunk Boys

Date: 1910
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk boy posing sitting, and two boys standing. The young man sitting is holding a a package wrappe...
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Men in Front of Post Office and Bank

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Description: Panoramic view from street of sixteen men standing on the sidewalk in front of the Jackson County Bank and the Post Office. On the sidewalk in front of the...
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Studio Portrait of European American Child

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified girl posing standing on a stump behind a prop wooden fence. She is holding a light-colore...
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Parade Scene

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a loaded wagon/float in front of Building No. 88 on the northeast corner of South First and Fillmore Streets. A banner rea...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a European American woman posed standing next to a stump in front of a painted backdrop. She is wearing a light-colored dres...
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Anna Oderbolz and Hattie Roddy

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two European American women posed sitting in near profile. The woman on the left is looking to the right,...

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