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Encyclopedia Dubuque

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"Encyclopedia Dubuque is the online authority for all things Dubuque, written by the people who know the city best.”
Marshall Cohen—researcher and producer, CNN

Affiliated with the Local History Network of the State Historical Society of Iowa, and the Iowa Museum Association.




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  • curprev 00:5700:57, 13 August 2023Randylyon talk contribs 1,312 bytes +1,312 Created page with " Many American families in the 19th century felt the need to capture the likeness of their dead children before they were laid to rest. Before the age of inexpensive photography, parents who lost young children grieved even about not remembering what they looked like. Some wealthy parents could afford to rush a portrait painter to their home to product a picture they could keep. These parents, however, were few in number leaving the producing of an image to a photogra..."