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Woman in Bonnet

Date: 1930
Description: A woman in old style dress with bonnet, cape and carpet bag, stands at a gate in a picket fence. There is an old house in the background.
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Young Woman with Flowers

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified young woman in old-fashioned dress holds flowers as she stands in front of entrance of the Trimpey house at 719 Oak Street.
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Woman and Child

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman in night cap and dressing gown holds an infant in a long white dress. She is seated on a Victorian settee.
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Women at Skillet Falls

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Description: Stereograph of a group of women exploring Skillet Falls, some of them walking on the rocks. In the background is a horse-drawn buggy with a man and woman s...
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Woman Knitting

Date: 1930
Description: An elderly woman in an old-fashioned dress sits and knits by a table in front of a painted backdrop.
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Portrait of a Young Woman

Date: 1925
Description: A full-length studio portrait of a young woman, possibly a dancer, in costume.
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Young Woman

Date: 1915
Description: A young woman sits on a log which lies over a stream bed in a wooded area.
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Woman and Child

Date: 1930
Description: A Native American woman wearing a mix of traditional and western dress holds a child in her lap outdoors.
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Martha Schilling

Date: 1930
Description: An elderly woman in headscarf, checked dress and sweater, sits outdoors knitting. Identified as Martha Schilling, wife of Adam Rebholz from Portage, Wiscon...
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Boating on Devil's Lake

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Description: Two men and a woman attend to boats in the lake, while three children wait ashore.
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Woman at Keyboard

Date: 1920
Description: A woman in an old style dress stands in profile by a keyboard instrument, with her left knee resting on a Gothic Revival chair. A candle is burning in a br...
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Jennie Rooney with Shell

Date: 1930
Description: A young woman stands holding a sea shell. She wears wings and is loosely wrapped in diaphanous cloth.
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Probably Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1909
Description: Seven women and a man pose on a large boulder in front of a wall-like rock formation, probably in Parfrey's Glen.
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Woman and Infant

Date: 1912
Description: A hand-tinted image of a young woman with a ruffled nightcap tending an infant wrapped in a crocheted blanket lying in a cradle. A candle is burning in a b...
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Trail Ride

Date: 1940
Description: Two women and a man (a fourth rider is hidden) on horseback are enjoying the view from a bluff in Devil's Lake State Park. The Devil's Doorway rock formati...
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Effinger Park

Date: 1930
Description: Six men and women and two dogs sitting in the shade at the park. A carved bench is in the foreground, and in the background are houses or cabins.
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Hop Harvesting

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of hop harvesters, men, women and children, posing in a field at H.H. Potter's Hop Yard. Trellises of mature hops plants ar...
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Devil's Lake

Date: 1909
Description: Two women wearing long dresses pose on a large boulder at the base of a rock formation in a shady glen.
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Falls at Parfrey's Glen

Date: 1910
Description: Two girls stand in the foreground, and a man and woman sit on a log over the stream in the background at the Parfrey's Glen waterfall near Devil's Lake.
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Jennie Rooney

Date: 1930
Description: A woman poses with a mirror and powder puff. She wears a bangled costume and dance slippers.

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