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Women Crossing Street

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Description: Four women crossing a street. One of the women in the foreground is dressed in a fashionable dress and hat.
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Portrait of Two Women

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Description: Studio portrait of two women in front of a painted backdrop. One woman is seated and one is standing, are they are dressed in fashionable dresses. The woma...
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Two Women in a Flower Bedecked Horse-Drawn Cart

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Description: Two women in fancy hats and summer dresses are sitting in a horse-drawn cart which has flower bedecked wheels and seat. One of the woman has an umbrella. I...
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Woman Trout Fishing

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Description: A fashionably dressed woman fishes for trout while standing in the Namekagon River.
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Unidentified Woman

Date: 1895
Description: Studio portrait of an unidentified woman in a fancy dress and wearing a decorative comb in her hair.
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Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 08 09 1920
Description: Text on the front reads: "M.E. Church, Waukesha, Wis." Three women and a child stand in the street in front of a limestone church built in 1895 in the Rich...
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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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Style Show

Date: 02 22 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Women's Self Government Association style show, showing two women standing, dressed in suits, hats and gloves.
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Women in Fur Coats

Date: 1926
Description: Three women pose together wearing fur coats and fashionable hats. The woman in the middle is perched on a column near a storefront, and the woman on the ri...
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Two Smiling Women

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Description: Two fashionably dressed women stand with their arms around each other's waist in a clearing near a woods.
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Vintage Dress for Women

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Gene Woodfin dressed in a 1898 University of Wisconsin gym suit.
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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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Mrs. Roseline Peck

Date: 1874
Description: Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck.
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Woman Standing with Violin

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of woman posing with her violin and bow. She wears a large white bow in her hair.
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Portrait of Six Women in Wearing Hats

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Description: Vignetted group portrait of six young women posing in a row. They are all wearing hats with flat crowns, curved or bent brims and lavish feather arrangemen...
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Woman in front of Union Theater

Date: 08 13 1940
Description: "Back to School." Woman modeling for Manchester's Department store outdoors in front of the Union Theater.
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Woman Holding Violin

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a woman sitting in a chair holding a violin on her knee. She is holding the bow in her other hand. She we...
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Three Women

Date: 1910
Description: Three young women, from left Leta von der Sump, Ethel Wallace, and Hattie von der Sump, sitting for a waist-up portrait in front of a backdrop. The women ...
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Two Fashionable Women

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of two women standing in front of a painted backdrop. They are dressed in black and are wearing fashionable coats, muffs and ha...
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Women Wearing Furs and Hats

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Description: Three-quarter length studio portrait of two women posing standing in front of a painted backdrop. Both women are wearing elaborate hats and fur shawls, and...

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