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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carriage in front of picket fence with people on horses and on porch of large brick house that has trim on porch top and three chimneys; house has 1868 dat... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The William Bullock family is posed before a stone upright and wing house with carpenter's lace brackets and trim on its porch. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Family in front of fence with stone house that has a fan window on the side, two small stone additions and screen door in background. There is a log buildi... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Family seated in yard with woman holding parasol and large stone house with frame addition, and a wooden porch roof. There is a barn and animals in the bac... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Mapleside, the home built by Able Dunning in 1853 on what is now University Avenue. It was razed in 1970 to make way for a Burger King restaurant. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A group posed on the porch of the Middleton House, a two-story frame building with lattice and cut work, located across the intersection from J. Green & Co... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Asa Preston (1816-1892) stands in front of his blacksmith's shop with his sons David (1840-1904) and John (1842-1898) behind him and a variety of items mad... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Men in wagons posed in front of a rural post office. They brandish guns, whiskey bottles and possibly a harmonica with humorous intent. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People stand on a sidewalk and porch in front of a frame store. Farm machinery is on the side of the store. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | The Carlisle House on Brodhead Street. The building is surrounded by the Commercial Hotel, a billiard parlor, and J. Orbrecht's Variety Store. |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Farmers off-loading milk cans from their wagons at the creamery. One man is operating a hoist, lifting a can to pour the milk down a chute. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family standing on the porch of the Onon Bjorn Dahle Store. The store has a second floor balcony across the front, and steps and a fence on the right sid... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | The Onon Bjorn Dahle Store with a pile of boxes to the left and a cornfield on the right. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J. Green & Co. Store, a frame building with a false front, a third-story fan window and two full windows. Men stand nearby with farm i... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Twenty-nine people (teacher with children) near board fence in front of a one room schoolhouse with outhouse. |
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