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[A picnic lunch on the 4th of July]
A group of twenty adults and fifteen children are seated on the grass around a large table cloth. Glasses and plates filled with food and drinks have been place on the table cloth. See image LO 172 for another image of a 4th of July picnic. The…
[A Performance]
Three women and two men appear to be in costume, acting out a scene staged in an ornate living room.
[A patriotic float in a Union Sunday School parade in Dubuque, Iowa]
This image, taken from above street-level, shows a large float drawn by two horses. The float is draped in red white and blue bunting. Blankets in a similar pattern drape the horses. Uncle Sam is standing on the float and doffing his hat to the large…
[A miniature church float in a 1926 Union Sunday School parade in Dubuque, Iowa]
A policeman with his back to the camera is seen directing a tandem float around a corner. The leading float is white and has a partially visible sign that reads “ LORD … ED THE HAB … MY HOUSE PSA 26-8. Several men are riding on this float. It is…
[A marching band in colorful uniforms marching in a 1932 Union Sunday School parade in Dubuque, Iowa]
A marching band of approximately thirty male members is shown in this image. They are wearing dark colored pantaloons and jackets, white spats and dark hats. The band members are carrying Sousaphones, upright tubas, trombones and parade drums.
[A marching band in a 1926 Union Sunday School parade in Dubuque, Iowa]
A marching band composed of male band members is shown marching in place during the parade. The men are dressed in dark pantaloons and bolero-style jackets, white shirts, white spats and dark caps. The drum major is wearing a tall, white, fur hat and…
[A man at a telephone and a woman at a desk in a Martin-Strelau Company office]
A woman sits in front of an open ledger at a roll-top desk and is posed looking at the camera. A man holding a telephone leans on the frame of a window that connects this office with the next. The man has been identified as possibly being Albert M.…
[A Man and a woman working in an unidentified office on the sixth floor of the Bank & Insurance Building]
An elderly man sits at a roll-top desk while a woman is posed with a typewriter at a table next to the desk. A large fern is on a wooden stool next to the window at right. Pinned to the window frame next to the fern is a sign that reads, “We close…
[A man and a woman working in a Martin-Strelau Company office]
A man and woman work at a table in a Martin-Strelau Company office. The walls are bare except for a Coates and Robinson calendar (open to June, 1912) hanging by a wire from a picture rail. The back side of a roll top desk can be seen at left. A long…
[A Man and a woman in a Dubuque Fire and Marine Insurance Company office in the Bank & Insurance Building]
A woman sits at a desk in the foreground at left and a man stands at a desk in the background at right in this office at the Dubuque Fire & Marine Insurance Company, rooms 710 to 715 in the B & I Building. There is a telephone and a typewriter on the…