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Lenore Ulric in "Her Own People"

Date: 1916
Description: Full-length publicity portrait of Leonore Ulric who played Alona in "Her Own People."
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People Playing Golf

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Description: People playing golf outside of Hillside Home School, an early progressive school operated by Ellen and Jane Lloyd Jones, aunts of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Brooks McCormick with Group of People with Llama or Alpaca

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Description: Group of people, including Brooks McCormick in a tuxedo, standing with a llama or alpaca type animal. The group is standing on a path with plants and trees...
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Fur Trading Post

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Description: A diorama depicting several people, including a small child, gather at a fur trading post in Juneau, Alaska.
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Family Group Posed Outdoors

Date: 1907
Description: View of twelve people, men, women, and children, posing together in front of a building.
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NAACP Milwaukee Branch Annual Dinner

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Elevated view over people sitting at tables in front of the head table, at the NAACP Milwaukee Branch's 1958 Annual Dinner. Roy Wilkins, seated in the midd...
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People at a Meeting

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Description: Five people attending a meeting. Two men and two women are sitting, and one woman is standing.
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Scene from "Bobbed Hair"

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Description: A scene from the 1925 film "Bobbed Hair" of people at a costume party. Marie Prevost, as Connemara Moore, is dressed as a nun and stands between Reed Howe...
Postcard

Four Young People with Blackberries

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of four young people. From left to right: Teresa Kalscheur Endres, Frank Kalscheur, Julia Kalscheur, and Ter...
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Group Portrait

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Description: Group portrait of six young people. The five women are wearing hats, and are posed in front of young man wearing a suit.
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Daisy Bates at a Podium

Date: 05 1960
Description: Daisy Bates speaks at a podium, with several people, including a smiling man, seated to her left.
Poster

Buy United States Government War Savings Stamps

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a line of people waiting to buy war savings stamps. The clothing and jewelry of the people suggests they are of varied ...
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870 People Bid Farewell to Dr. Alfred Swan, Minister First Congregational Church

Date: 10 05 1965
Description: 870 people gather at the Park Motor Inn banquet room to honor retiring minister Dr. Alfred Swan of the First Congregational Church. Dr. Swan began as minis...
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Tuareg Artifacts

Date: 1925
Description: Autochrome documentary display of several colorful objects collected from Tuareg people by Alonzo Pond on his Algerian expedition. Included are a bowl, a k...
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Ho-Chunk Women in Buffalo Dance Lodge

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Description: A group of Ho-Chunk people standing in the rear of a Buffalo Dance Lodge. The Buffalo Dance would take place in the spring, when the grass was long enough ...
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Green Ram Theater Picnic

Date: 07 07 1957
Description: Three people enjoying a picnic at the Green Ram Theater north of Baraboo.
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Lenore Ulric and Frank Colvin in "Her Own People" Scene Still

Date: 1916
Description: Leonore Ulric as the American Indian girl Alona, "the half-breed daughter of a wealthy white man" (Moving Picture World 8/19/1916, p. 1268). She is in the ...
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Costa Rican Home

Date: 1902
Description: A women and her two children standing in front of the doorway to a traditional home of the indigenous people of Costa Rica. Several logs act as a sidewalk ...
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Faye Emerson with Magazine Cover

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Description: Faye Emerson standing next to an enlarged cover for the June 20, 1950 edition of the magazine People Today. She is featured on the cover. Faye is al...
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Lac Courte Oreilles Group Portrait

Date: 1910
Description: Outdoor group portrait of four Lac Courte Oreilles people: Mrs. [Lucille Mike] Kingfisher, Mitchell Quagon, with a pipe in his mouth, Lizzie Quagon, his wi...

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