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Family of Five by Plain House

Date: 1873
Description: A family of five are sitting and standing close to the sides of a very plain upright-and-wing frame house. The long shadows of trees emphasize the sparsene...
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Family near Rural House

Date: 1876
Description: Slightly elevated view of a family standing near a small and neat rural frame house. The women are wearing hats. One man is leaning against the house with ...
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Two Women and a Boy by Frame House

Date: 1877
Description: An unusual long and low frame house with a small central second story. The porch wraps around two sides and has no railing. There are some Gothic Revival d...
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Family of Seven by Large House

Date: 1873
Description: A family of seven stands in the yard of a large, but plain wood frame house. It has three chimneys and a small attic story window in tablet style.
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Family of Fifteen by House

Date: 1872
Description: An extended family of fifteen stands in front of a wood frame house. On the left a man holds a black horse, and to the right of the doorway a woman sits at...
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Family Playing Croquet

Date: 1869
Description: A family playing croquet in the yard of a frame house with three chimneys. A baby carriage is near the house on the left, and exterior cellar doors are on ...
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Croquet in the Yard

Date: 1874
Description: A family playing croquet in the yard of a side gable frame house with a porch. A birdcage is hanging from the porch and a young girl is clutching a doll. A...
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Family on Porch Steps

Date: 1870
Description: A family of eleven is sitting on the porch steps and standing in the yard alongside a wood frame house with elegant trim above its windows, and along top f...
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Family in Yard and on Porch

Date: 1878
Description: Extended family group of twenty-two people, some in work clothes, some elegantly dressed, stand in a yard and on the porch steps of an upright and wing fra...
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Family Standing by Board Fence

Date: 1875
Description: A family of seven standing in a yard near a board fence in front of their frame house. A dog is sitting near the boy in the foreground. A man standing on t...
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Family in Yard and Woman on Horseback

Date: 1869
Description: A family poses in a yard with one elegantly dressed young woman on horseback. The frame house has an unusually shaped attic story fan window. The porch is ...
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Family by Stone Gate

Date: 1879
Description: A well-dressed family of four is posed in front of a stone fence with a picket gate. Behind them is a Greek Revival frame house with shuttered windows.
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Family in Yard of Farmhouse

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in...
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Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her Two Girls

Date: 1877
Description: Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her two girls are standing in front of a frame house that has lathe on roof for climbing. Vines are growing in window boxes and ...
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Family with Infant

Date: 1870
Description: A family of seven, including a babe in arms are in front of a frame house with a stone foundation and latticework under the porch. A tree stump is in the l...
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Family on Latticework Porch

Date: 1878
Description: A family of nine, and a dog, are posing standing in the yard of an upright and wing house with a porch nearly completely walled-in by latticework.
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Family in front of Norwegian Style House

Date: 1876
Description: A family of six are posing in front of a fancy picket fence with an ornate Norwegian folk-style gate. The two-story frame house has a front porch decorated...
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Elderly Woman with Baby and Family

Date: 1872
Description: A family of eleven in the yard and on the porch, including an elderly woman holding a baby. The house is Greek Revival with a small porch and small windows...
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Four Children and a Couple

Date: 1876
Description: Four children and a couple stand in a yard behind a picket fence and before a Greek Revival frame house with shutters.
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Couple with Two Girls

Date: 1869
Description: A couple and two girls stand among small trees in front of an upright and wing frame house with latticework above the porch.

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