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Women in Garden with Rhubarb

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Description: Five women posing sitting behind rhubarb leaves in a fenced-in garden. Two of the women are wearing rhubarb leaves on their heads. In the background are fe...
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Winnebago Indian Woman

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Description: View of a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian woman in traditional dress. The woman stands on stone steps, surrounded by flowers and trees.
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Group of Women and Girls in the Woods

Date: 1892
Description: Six young women are posing on a ladder in a woods. There is a young girl in front of them. A woman and a young girl are standing off to the side.
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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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W.H. Metcalf Residence

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Description: A woman posing in a garden at William H. Metcalf's Residence.
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Cottage at Birchcliff Hotel

Date: 1926
Description: View across lawn of a guest cottage at the Birchcliff Hotel. A woman is seated in the screened-in porch.
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May Fete

Date: 1914
Description: Eight women in costumes are posing in a field, in front of flowering bushes. One is holding a caduceus. Caption identifies this as: "May Fete, Spring Festi...
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Rustic Cabin at Birchcliff Hotel

Date: 1926
Description: View from wooden bridge of a log cabin in the woods towards group of people. Two women standing at the end of the bridge, another woman stands on the front...
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Three Women Sitting on the Porch of Professor Allen's House

Date: 1902
Description: Three women are sitting on the porch steps of Professor Allen's home, located on Langdon Street. Two of the women hold hand fans in their lap.
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Women Posed Reading Letter

Date: 1907
Description: Two women are posing together in a yard front of plants and vines building on the side of a building. The woman on the left is standing and holding a lette...
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Women on Horses

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ...
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Downer College Graduation

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor group portrait of women graduating from Downer College standing in front of a vine covered wall. The woman are wearing long white dresses with high...
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Group Portrait of Young Women

Date: 12 08 1943
Description: A group of six young indigenous women posed seated on the ground. They are wearing grass skirts and flowers in their hair. The woman in front is holding a ...
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Group of People in Front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in front of a frame house with a porch covered in vines. In the foreground four young girls are in front of a fence, and tw...
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Group in the Wisconsin Dells

Date: 1905
Description: A group of two men and four women, including Hattie, far left, and Leta von der Sump, far right. The well-dressed group is posing in a narrow passage creat...
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Outdoor Portrait of Elderly Woman

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Description: Portrait of an elderly woman. She is seated in a chair holding flowers on her lap. Caladium in pots are arranged on both sides. In the background are ferns...
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Two Women Posing in Sumac Foliage

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Description: Francis Rodenschmidt Doyle and an unidentified woman pose together surrounded by sumac foliage.
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A Woman Standing on a Porch

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Description: Three-quarter view of a woman dressed in a dark summer skirt and a striped blouse with leg-of-mutton sleeves and a striped tie, standing on a porch looking...
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Fun at the Lake

Date: 1907
Description: An unidentified young woman wearing a white dress is standing on the prow of a skiff watching fifteen children playing in shallow water. A second woman is ...
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Flower Garden

Date: 1931
Description: A woman sits and reads on a wooden slat bench in a flower garden. There are ornamental plants in a wash tub and other containers; a rose bush nearly covers...

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