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| Description: | A full room of students at the State Normal(?) School. All of the students appear to be female. A line of possible teachers are in front of the blackboard. |
| Date: | 07 15 1912 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Center Street Looking East, Whitewater, Wis." Homes and trees on a street in a neighborhood. Passengers in an automobile are parked i... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of James and Mary Bray Holloway and their children, Lizzie and Will. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Studio wedding portrait of W.V.B. (Will) Holloway and Lorena Taylor Holloway, Richard Quinney's maternal grandparents. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, playing tennis outdoors at Whitewater State University in her Physical Education class. She is wearing a skirt, midri... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Birge Fountain. Whitewater, Wis." The Neoclassical-style Birge Fountain, located in Flat Iron Park. Mythical figures decorate the foo... |
| A Good Mother, a Good Friend and a Good Woman |
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| Discover Juliet Severance, the free-thinking Whitewater physician who was involved with the anti-slavery movement, temperance and women's rights. |
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| Description: | A group of adults and children pose for a portrait at a lakeside setting. Four children are sitting on a bench, and a young girl sits on the ground. In the... |
| Date: | 06 21 1916 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "'Playgrounds,' Whitewater, Wis." Two girls, and three boys with a bicycle are in a grass covered playground with swings, slides, sees... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, (5th from left), with six of her roommates and the House Mother, Ms. Welch, at Whitewater State University. They are ... |
| Spirits Lead a Woman to Fortune |
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| Morris Pratt was a well known psychic medium whose legacy is his eponymous spiritualist institution in Whitewater, known locally as "Pratt's Folly." |
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