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Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

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Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
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Boy with Delivery Wagon

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Description: Boy posing standing next to a delivery wagon pulled by a single horse. Marked on side "Tel. 76" and a box of "Saxon Oats" in the wagon.
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Man with Two Horses

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Description: Man posing with two horses in a farmyard. Fences and farm buildings are in the background. A tower on the far right may be a windmill.
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Man with Race Horse

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Description: Man preparing to halter a race horse. They are standing near a fence, and in the background are buildings and people.
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Man Displaying Horse

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Description: Man (partially obscured) standing on the left holding lead attached to the bridle of a draft horse stallion with a white blaze. They are standing on an unp...
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Man Training Horse

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Description: Man training a horse on a rope line in a farmyard.
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Man with Racehorse

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Description: Man in a racing rig with a harnessed horse on the northwest corner of Harrison and Third Street. There is a barn behind them.
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Ferris Wheel

Date: 1893
Description: People gathered around a Ferris wheel.
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Two Women in Front of House

Date: 1895
Description: Two women standing in the doorway of a house, numbered 419.
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Side of Barn

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Description: Side of a barn missing two boards.
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Construction of a Stone Foundation Barn

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Description: Two men stand on the rafters of an unfinished, stone foundation barn.
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Horses Outside of Barn

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Description: Two men each hold a pair of horses outside of a stone foundation barn as a woman observes.
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Horses in Barnyard

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Description: Two men attend to three horses and three colts. A number of farm buildings are in the background.
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Man in Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1885
Description: Winter scene with a European American man with a beard and moustache sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse on snow-covered ground in front of the C....
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People Posing in front of Wooden Building

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Description: Group portrait of five men, and a woman holding a baby, standing in front of a large, two-story wooden building, possibly a farm implement or feed store. A...
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Farm Fields

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Description: View over fences, fields and road towards several wooden buildings. A man is standing overlooking the fields with his back towards the camera.
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H.A. Bright House

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Description: Elevated view of a woman and two girls posing standing in a yard behind a fence. On the road on the left are two women sitting in a buggy pulled by a singl...
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Ormsby House

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Description: View across road of a boy and dog posed standing at the open gate of a fence in front of a large house. Probably the green house owned by Henry Ormsby on t...
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Jones House

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Description: Exterior view of a frame house. A man is posed standing on the small side porch on the left, and two children are posed sitting looking out of one of the f...
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Roddy House

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Description: View across lawn of the Roddy House. A young girl is posing in the yard standing and displaying a pony, a young man is sitting with a dog near the porch st...

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