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Main Street

Date: 1873
Description: Main Street, with its dirt, ruts, cows (and presumably manure), but wide enough for easy hitching of wagons and teams.
Photograph

Tobacco Field

Date: 08 24 1929
Description: A farmer is standing in a tobacco field, with crop ready to harvest. Farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Pasture with Brick House and Barns

Date: 1870
Description: A pasture is in the foreground with a brick house, barn and connected outbuildings behind it.
Photograph

Nels Dahl Family

Date: 1871
Description: The Nels Dahl family posing in front of their home on Main Street in DeForest. From left to right they are: Emma, Ingeborg Ronjum Dahl, Ida, Bertha, Tina, ...
Photograph

Knut Knudesen Family

Date: 1869
Description: Knut Knudesen family in yard of large brick house with shuttered windows, stone foundation and trellis at porch.
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Andreas Dahl's Photographic Gallery

Date: 1878
Description: Exterior view of Andreas Dahl's photographic gallery. The gallery is attached to his house.
Photograph

A.L. Dahl's Photography Studio

Date: 1877
Description: A view from the roof across an unpaved road towards a building across the street from A.L. Dahl's photography studio. The two-story storefront is a general...
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Caroline Keyser Preus's Funeral Wreath

Date: 1880
Description: Funeral wreath of Caroline Keyser Preus, the wife of Lutheran minister Herman Amberg Preus.
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First School House in DeForest Wis.

Date: 1875
Description: The first school house in DeForest is a frame, one-story building with shutters. The group posed in front consists of the woman teacher and her students. B...
Photograph

Lewis Dahl Driving Automobile

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Description: Home of Tina Dahl Bertrand. Lewis Dahl at the wheel of an automobile. Walter and mother second and third from right in back seat. Bertrands on porch.
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Lewis Dahl Driving Automobile

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Description: Lewis Dahl at the wheel of an automobile. Walter and mother second and third from right in back seat. This is the home of Tina Dahl Bertrand. Bertrands on ...
Photograph

Isaac DeForest Home

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Description: Isaac DeForest home. Pauline Dahl standing at the bottom of the front steps of large two-story frame house; the house has lattice work at bottom of porch, ...
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Isaac DeForest House

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Description: The Isaac DeForest house, which was owned by Louis Dahl at the time.
Postcard

Water Tower

Date: 1909
Description: View up hill towards a water tower with a flag flying from a pole at the top. Caption reads: "Water Tower, De Forest, Wis."
Postcard

Public School

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view from street of the brick public school, with bell tower. Caption reads: "Public School, De Forest, Wis."
Postcard

Commerce Street

Date: 1909
Description: View down center of unpaved Commerce Street with buildings along a sidewalk on the right, and a building in the distance. Caption reads: "Commerce Street, ...
Postcard

High School Building

Date: 1910
Description: View across lawn towards the high school building, with a bell tower. Caption reads: "High School Building, De Forest, Wis."

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