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Parlor in "The House Next Door"

Date: 07 19 1933
Description: Parlor decorated in 1840s style in Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door." aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 North Webster Street, showing piano and firepl...
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Dining Room in "The House Next Door"

Date: 07 19 1933
Description: Dining room decorated in 1840s style in Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door," aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 N. Webster Street. The pantry is seen thr...
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Pantry in "The House Next Door"

Date: 07 19 1933
Description: Pantry decorated in 1840s style in Ralph Warner's "The House Next Door," aka the Lovejoy-Duncan House, 11219 N. Webster Street, Cooksville.
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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
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Bedroom at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Sleeping quarters at the State School for the Blind, with four single beds, a dresser, a chair, and a table.
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State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Interior of the State School for the Blind, perhaps a study or room for recreation. Included in the room are several tables with small models, a piano, and...
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Ole Ashburn and Wife Seated in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house...
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Ashburn Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by...
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Woman Knitting with Family

Date: 1876
Description: Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ...
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Mrs. Belle Knickerbocker

Date: 
Description: Carte-de-visite full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Mrs. Belle Knickerbocker of Shullsburg, Wisconsin. She is holding a book in her left...
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Tallman House Bedroom

Date: 1956
Description: View of the bedroom in which Abraham Lincoln stayed in 1859.
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Tallman House Parlor

Date: 1956
Description: View of chairs and a table set around the fireplace. A mirror is above the fireplace, and a grandmother clock is against the far wall. The windows flanking...
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Tallman House Parlor

Date: 1956
Description: View of parlor with chairs, fireplaces and other textiles.
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Tallman House

Date: 1950
Description: Interior view of a corner of the parlor and the open doorway to the conservatory.
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Tallman House

Date: 1950
Description: Interior of the parlor. The fireplace is on the left, with a mirror above the mantel. A large window at floor height is on the right behind a chair and a s...
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Tallman House

Date: 1952
Description: View toward the kitchen from the first floor hallway.
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Tallman House

Date: 1950
Description: View of the Lincoln Bedroom. There is a bed on the left, and in the corner of the room is a desk and a chair. The tall windows are arched.
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Tallman House

Date: 1953
Description: View of the second parlor in the Tallman House. The fireplace is on the left, with a mirror above the mantel. A large window at floor height is on the righ...
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Tallman House

Date: 1953
Description: View of the second parlor in the Tallman House. On the right is the open doorway to the conservatory.
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Tallman House

Date: 1956
Description: Interior view of a bedroom, with a tall, arched window on the far wall, and a painting hanging near the bed. Caption reads: "Tallman Homestead, Janesville,...

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