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Woman Holding Baby

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Description: Woman in bathrobe sits in a rocking chair holding an infant.
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Two Women with Two Infants

Date: 1914
Description: Two young women, each in matching dresses and each holding an infant.
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Woman Holding Baby in Papoose Carrier

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Description: Portrait of a young woman in buckskins holding a baby in a cradle board.
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Group Gathered Outdoors

Date: 1930
Description: Large group portrait of men, women, and children in front of a wooden building. Some of the men are wearing suits and ties, and some of the women are weari...
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Woman & Baby

Date: 02 14 1935
Description: Woman sitting in a chair, holding a baby. Taken for Sheboygan Press Newspaper.
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman and Child

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified woman posing sitting and holding an infant in her lap. The woman is wearing a da...
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Studio Portrait of European American Woman and Child

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified woman posing sitting. She is holding a girl in her lap. The woman is wearing a d...
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Victim of Recession

Date: 03 02 1958
Description: Unidentified young woman in home with small children. Annotated on back: “Victim of recession, Mar. 2, 1958.”
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Studio Portrait of Group of European American Women

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Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two women posing sitting. The woman on the right is holding an infant. Behind them are two girls po...
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Group Gathered Outside

Date: 1930
Description: Large group portrait of men, women, and children out front of a wooden building. Some of the men are wearing suits and ties, and some of the women are wear...
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Ada Bass with Son Cary

Date: 1895
Description: Ada, the photographer's wife, and son, Cary, seated in front of an unidentified woman and a young girl. The woman and girl are both looking at 'Dick,' the ...
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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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American Farm Yard In Winter

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi...
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Traditional Ways

Date: 1976
Description: A young native American woman is sitting on the ground holding her infant in a cradleboard on her lap, a traditional way to protect and transport babies. S...
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Mrs. Brandel and Two Women

Date: 06 1927
Description: Mrs. Brandel (center) with two other women posing on and near a tree stump on a lawn. There is a building and water in the background.
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Portrait of Marie Big Hawk and Her Baby

Date: 1936
Description: Studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman, Marie Big Hawk Whitewater, holding her baby Clyde White in her lap in front of a painted background. She has shoulder ...
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Family Posed on Porch

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Description: A family is posed outside their three-story brick home in the yard. A woman in the middle sits in a chair with a child in her lap. Four other children stan...
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Studio Portrait of the Windblow Sisters and Infant

Date: 1909
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two young Ho-Chunk women and a Ho-Chunk infant. The woman sitting on the left is wearing rega...
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Mother and Child

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Description: Studio portrait of mother and child in front of a painted backdrop. The woman is seated and wearing a black dress, the toddler is standing and dressed in w...
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Visiting in a Hospital

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Description: Two women in a hospital corridor. The woman on the left is sitting in a wheelchair reading a book, with one of her feet in a "boot." She is wearing a hospi...

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