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Unloading the Arkansas

Date: 1870
Description: The sternwheel packet, Arkansas, loaded with gunny sacks of wheat taken between 1872 and 1878. Men are unloading barrels and gunny sacks on a gangpl...
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Grain Binder

Date: 1870
Description: Engineering(?) photograph of a grain binder. The binder may be experimental.
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Amund Rustebakke Farm

Date: 1873
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 ...
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Landscape View and Farm

Date: 1873
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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Wing House with Windmill Structure

Date: 1870
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.
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Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.
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Farmer with Elaborate Fencing and Farmyard

Date: 1873
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...
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Farm with Traditional Norwegian Sval House

Date: 1870
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...
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Family Standing near their Barn

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands in front of a barn. Beside them are cattle, horses, a wagon and a manual rake reaper.
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Family of Herman Amberg Preus Playing Croquet

Date: 1873
Description: A family is gathered in a yard playing croquet. Nearby a child sits on a rocking horse and holds onto a small wagon. Behind that are some women and another...
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Family in Garden near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posed in their garden with a baby in its buggy and a woman holding her hat. The frame house behind them has a parapet roof, a porch with lattic...
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Group Posed around Frame House

Date: 1873
Description: A family is posed in front of a wood frame house. A boy or girl with a doll is sitting with a dog on the porch roof. A man holding an accordion is sitting ...
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Richard Green Residence

Date: 1872
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...
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Family with Carriage

Date: 1870
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...
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Family at Side of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is posing at the side of a house. A man and boy are holding rifles, and a dog is lying on the ground between the. There is a baby sitting in a hig...
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Couple Sitting on Porch

Date: 1873
Description: View across yard with tall plants and grass towards a man and woman sitting on a porch behind a latticework railing. The porch has carpenter's lace and a p...
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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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