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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.
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Sherman PTA Play Cast

Date: 01 23 1932
Description: Sherman PTA Players, winners of the 4th Dane Co. Drama Preliminary Contest at DeForest, in the fainting scene in "Bills."
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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.
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Anders Moldstad Family

Date: 1880
Description: A family seated around a table that has a fringed cloth. The children sit in small chairs and a woman holds a baby. The frame house behind a picket fence h...
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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, ...
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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.
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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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Portrait of Nels Dahl

Date: 1874
Description: Studio portrait of A.L. Dahl's brother, Nels.
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Park Hotel

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Description: The Park Hotel, once lived in by Lewis Dahl and family. It was also the Isaac DeForest home. Men and women are standing outdoors. There is a wagon or carri...
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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 ...
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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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Elevated View of DeForest

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of DeForest. Caption reads: "Birdseye View, DeForest, Wis."
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Dining Hall at DeForest House

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Description: Dining hall, DeForest House (or Park Hotel). Dr. Bertrand, right, his wife Tina, opposite. [Dahl family had "last reunion" about 1912].
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Nils L. Dahl

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Description: Nils L. Dahl, lying on funeral table.
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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.
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Dahl Establishment

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Description: View of the second Dahl establishment, with Walter Dahl and his dog out in front.
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Woman Preparing Lutefisk

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Description: Woman wearing an apron in an industrial kitchen and preparing a large pot of lutefisk possibly for a Syttende Mai celebration.
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."

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