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| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view drawing of the grounds of Villa Louis, the estate of the fur trading Dousman family. After the death of H. Louis Dousman's mother in 1882, ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Participants at the Western Rifle Association Tournament in Wapello, Iowa. Many of the men are holding guns. A farmhouse and farm buildings are in the ba... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Amund Rustebakke farm. Twelve haystacks dominate the left and center of the image, and two people are standing on top of the ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View down a rocky hill towards a split-rail fence bordering a prosperous farm. The low building in the center is the kind of cattle shed settlers built as ... |
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| Description: | Men and cattle, including one lineback and sheep are in a barnyard. A man and a child are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle outside of the barnyard fence. T... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | View of upright and wing house with adjacent windmill structure made in Batavia, Illinois, by U.S. Wind Eng. Pump Co. The barn has a stone foundation. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background. |
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| Description: | A Gothic Revival farmhouse with barge board trim behind a fence. Adjacent to the house are farm buildings, one which has a windmill mounted upon it. Men on... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A farmer with a long beard and wearing a hat is standing in the foreground in front of a board fence, which is part of an elaborate system of fencing surro... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The Richard Green residence is a frame house with a porch that features latticework. Before it stands an elaborate white fence. A clothesline pole can be s... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | A family stands behind a picket fence in the yard of a frame Greek Revival house with latticework on its porch. There are two wood trellises in the yard. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A carriage and a family stand in front of a picket fence in front of an unpainted Greek Revival frame house. Attached to the house is a storefront. Althoug... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | View over fence towards a family sitting in chairs or standing in the yard of a simple frame house that has railing along its porch's roof. There are many ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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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