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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 Playing Croquet

Date: 1870
Description: A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right.
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Yankee-Built Greek Revival House

Date: 1870
Description: A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i...
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Woman holds Baby by House

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard, with a woman holding a baby. There is a girl with an apron-type dress with frame house behind that has nicely cut woodwork on porch. There ...
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Family Seated in a Row near House

Date: 1871
Description: Family in line, seated in yard, with two-story frame house that has an addition and small second story windows in background. There is a huge woodpile behi...
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John Theodore Parman and Family

Date: 1873
Description: John Theodore Parman and his wife Louise stand second and third from the left behind their home's fence. Their daughters can be seen in the windows and the...
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Michael Johnson Engesether Family

Date: 1870
Description: The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ...
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Onon Bjorn Dahle and Family

Date: 1872
Description: Onon Bjorn Dahle and family stand before their substantial two-story bracket style stone house. It has a hipped roof, shutters and a picket fence. Onon Bjo...
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North First Street

Date: 1931
Description: View from shoreline towards North First Street showing the Brisbois house (center).
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House on Prospect Avenue

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Description: Exterior stereograph through an archway of a residence on Prospect Avenue.

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