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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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Checkpoint for the Republican Presidential Debate

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Men and women are taking out their tickets and handbags as they prepare to walk under metal detectors and hand their items over at the security checkpoint ...
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Fire Engine

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Description: A woman wearing a fire department officers cap, with a white shirt, red skirt, and tall white boots is posing standing on a fire truck, holding onto one of...
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Island Lodge Pastime

Date: 1918
Description: View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ...
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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
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Picnic

Date: 04 29 1934
Description: Mararet Bouer (Mrs. Herbert P.) Brumder, far left, and her son Philip, third from left, join other friends or relatives gathered around a large fallen log ...
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Lucy Rumsey Holt at her Desk

Date: 05 1914
Description: With her side to the camera, Lucy Rumsey Holt is sitting at her desk in her bedroom. Sunlight is streaming in from the window on the left. The bedroom wall...
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My Heart is Shaking Only For You

Date: 1945
Description: Valentine's Day card of a soda fountain with two girls seated on stools in front of the counter and a soda jerk behind. Two puppies are on the floor near t...
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Shading the Camera in the Woods

Date: 1921
Description: With her face partially shaded by a hat, Jeannette Holt is holding a cast iron frying pan sideways to shade the camera as a young man, sitting at the base ...

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