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Description: | "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge. |
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Description: | Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo... |
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Description: | Interior view of the Thordarson library with bookcases and a spectacular chandelier with buffalo horns. The building is of stone, with arched windows. |
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Description: | Hand-colored view of the Thordarson estate including the boathouse and a stone-paved path with benches. |
Date: | 09 07 1927 |
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Description: | Women employees of Thordarson? in bathing suits on the beach during the First Girls Party to Rock Island. |
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Description: | View across lawn or field of numerous buildings on Chester Thordarson's estate. There are greenhouses on the left. |
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Description: | View from balcony of the interior of the Chester Thordarson boathouse with several tables, upon which are numerous books. |
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Description: | Candid portrait of Chester Thordarson wearing a light-colored suit, holding a hat. He appears to be on a boat, with windows and a steering wheel behind him... |
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Description: | The stairs and dock at the lighthouse on Rock Island. |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch. |
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Description: | The entrance to the garden framed by a decorative wooden gate. |
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Description: | Chester Thordarson stands in his garden with a friend near the fish pond, which has a fountain. |
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Description: | Dock with two fishing boats and other various fishing implements. |
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Description: | Dock with two steamboats and fishing implements in harbor. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | A privately built and decorated chapel in the Norwegian style. |
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