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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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Jonathan Bowman Home for Women

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Description: Exterior view from street of a house in a residential neighborhood. A carport or porte-cochere is on the left of the front porch. Two women stand in the ya...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two unidentified women posing standing. In the background are several wooden buildings. The women are wearing dark-colored skirts, ligh...
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Sign Language Class

Date: 11 15 1954
Description: Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue are studying sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers' club. Mrs. Robert Ilten is greeted i...
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Women Posing with Dogs

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Description: Portrait of a woman posing sitting on a porch holding a small dog, and another woman posing sitting next to a large dog. Both women are wearing eyeglasses.
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Woman Walking Near The Village Inn

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Description: A woman in a coat and hat is walking past The Village Inn. Residential housing and automobiles are visible in the background.
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Man and Woman Standing in Front of a House

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man and woman posing standing in the yard in front of a wooden house.
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Women in Front of a Frame House

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Description: View across yard towards three women posing standing in the yard in front of a frame house near a wooden walkway. On the right a young girl is sitting near...
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Woman with Max the Dog

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Description: A woman kneels down next to Max, the family dog. Another woman stands on the sidewalk holding a hat, and a car can be seen in the background parked on the ...
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Three Women and a Plow

Date: 1926
Description: Two women are bending over in front of the plow on the left, pretending to pull a woman sitting on the back of the plow which is parked near a residential ...
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Four People Sitting in a Park

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Description: View towards two women posing sitting on the ground at the intersection of two wooden walkways in a park. Two men, in shadow, are sitting in the foreground...
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Bob and Faye Becker

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: Portrait of a man and woman posing together on the lawn in front of a tennis court and a house. The man is sitting in a reclining lawn chair, and the woman...
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Group Riding in Automobile

Date: 1910
Description: Two men are sitting in the front, and two women are sitting in the back seats of an early automobile riding on a residential street. The car's roof is retr...
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Gretchen Smoot and Another Woman

Date: 11 27 1931
Description: Gretchen Smoot, U.W. Co-ed and cousin of Utah Senator Reed Smoot, and another woman, both wearing fur coats, standing in front of a house.
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two unidentified women posing standing in a yard behind a plant. Behind them is a wooden walkway and a road. Across the road is a house...
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Fraternity Rush

Date: 09 23 1957
Description: Group of men on Langdon Street either participating in Fraternity Rush or watching women participate in Sorority Rush.
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Woman Standing on Corner

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman posing standing in the yard at the intersection of two wooden sidewalks. She is wearing a dark-colored skirt and light-colored ...
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Janet Sauk Graduates

Date: 1967
Description: Janet Sauk standing outdoors with another woman (possibly her mother) on the day she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is wearing her...
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Woman and Infant on a Porch

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Description: View of a woman kneeling and holding an infant on a wooden porch.
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Bodenius House

Date: 1898
Description: Two young girls wearing hats and dresses are leaning on a planter in the yard, two women are on the porch, and a man is sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. ...

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