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Playful Women at Fox Lake

Date: 1922
Description: A woman playfully spins another woman (probably her daughter) in a yard in front of a house. There is a lake in the background.
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Women at the Cottage

Date: 1922
Description: A woman holds a young woman (Mary Brandel?) in her arms in front of their cottage at Fox Lake. Two other people can be seen on the left.
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Outside Villa Louis

Date: 1968
Description: A woman dressed in period clothing is holding the hand of a young girl, with her parents standing behind her. Two other women in period clothing are standi...
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Cobblestone House

Date: 1884
Description: Exterior of a cobblestone house with women and children in the yard.
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Couple with Small Child in Yard

Date: 1898
Description: Man, woman, and small child posing standing in a yard in front of a frame house.
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Fashionable Family outside Home

Date: 1870
Description: Extended family of fourteen posed in their best clothes outside a home. Older woman seated in rocking chair, with men, women, girls, boy and baby.
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Outdoor Gathering

Date: 1930
Description: Men, women, and children in a crowd standing around outside talking in groups near a small outdoor shed. Most of the people have hats on. The women are wea...
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People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Man and woman posing sitting. They are surrounded by two women, three boys, and a man in a yard in front of a frame building.
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Family in Field

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Description: A woman, man and girl, possibly a family, stand in a field. The woman is holding a dog, and the man and girl are holding hands.
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People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Two men, three girls, and a woman are posing standing in a yard in front of a frame house farm buildings. In the background a man and woman are posing sitt...
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Sitting under the Canopy in Oconto

Date: 1899
Description: Shaded by a striped canopy, three women are sitting together and smiling in the Holt family backyard. Wearing aprons, the woman on the left and the woman w...
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Women and Children

Date: 1900
Description: Three women and several children posed in the tall grass beside a small frame farmhouse.
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Man, Two Women, and Infant in Front of House

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Description: A man and two women, one holding a small child in her lap, are posing sitting in a yard in front of an arbor and frame house.
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Martha Lomas and Esther

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Description: Full-length ferrotype/tintype of Martha and Esther Lomas from Lancaster, Wisconsin, in front of a painted backdrop. One of the women is standing with her l...
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Three Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1931
Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of three young Ho-Chunk women. One of the women is posing standing in the center behind the other two woman posing sit...
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Mother and Children with Typewriter

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Description: A woman and two small boys are sitting at a typewriter in the kitchen.
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Harvesting Potatoes

Date: 1925
Description: A Ho-Chunk family working in a field at harvest time. Two men are leaning on potato forks, while a woman and children are standing in the background. There...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Unidentified People

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men, women and children, perhaps an extended family. The oldest couple, a man and woman, is seated in the center, with the woman ...
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Short Wave Communication

Date: 01 26 1956
Description: Sitting in a car, a woman and her daughter are talking to another daughter who is at Albrook Air Force Base in the Canal Zone.
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Studio Portrait of Three Unidentified Ho-Chunk Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified women. The woman sitting on the right has contrasting color stitching arou...

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