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Huge Log Jam

Date: 1869
Description: Elevated view from steep shoreline of a log jam of about 150 million feet of logs, stopped at the piers of Pound, Halbert, and Co., which stood in about 40...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Buildings

Date: 1899
Description: View along shoreline of University of Wisconsin-Madison buildings across Lake Mendota from Carroll Street. The Armory (Red Gym or Old Red), a boathouse, an...
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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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Family on Wrap-Around Porch

Date: 1873
Description: A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston...
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The Old Oaken Bucket

Date: 1879
Description: Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof...
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Family under Large Tree

Date: 1875
Description: Newhouse family in yard under large tree, with frame house that has latticework siding on the front porch as well as a Hekla sign, indicating that the hous...
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Jerome Skaalen with Wife and Guests

Date: 1878
Description: Some men are in a yard sitting and standing with scythe, rake and pitch fork. A woman sits on the front porch of a frame house with shutters, one closed on...
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Family in Yard for Coffee

Date: 1875
Description: Family posed in yard around a table set for coffee. Behind is a large frame house with stone foundation, latticework at bottom of front porch, and lightnin...
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Family around Table Outdoors

Date: 1877
Description: A large family is posed in the front yard around a table set with a white cloth and glassware, before a two-story bracket style house with a hip roof. The ...
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Family Seated in front of House

Date: 1875
Description: Large bracket house with shutters and man on porch; carpenter's lace in excess; family seated in yard in front of house. House also has latticework at foun...
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Playing Croquet

Date: 1873
Description: Six people playing croquet in front of picket fence; frame house with shutters and latticework on porch in background.
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Family and Child on Fence

Date: 1870
Description: Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ...
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Family Sitting in Yard

Date: 1874
Description: A family is seated in chairs randomly spread in the yard of a frame house with shutters, a stone foundation, carpenter's lace brackets and two front doorwa...
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Family of Fourteen

Date: 1871
Description: A family of fourteen in yard outside upright and wing frame house on stone foundation, with board fencing in the foreground.
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Family in Yard of Large Home

Date: 1874
Description: Family in yard of large brick Greek Revival House surrounded by white, freshly painted, board fencing.
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Woman Holds Framed Portrait with Family Group

Date: 1875
Description: A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot...
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Family in front of Home

Date: 1874
Description: Family in front of picket fence, with girl and baby carriage behind gate, man on horse, brick house with hipped roof and shutters, and two boys on porch ro...
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Home and Farm of Halvor Nerison Hauge

Date: 1874
Description: Christiana Township, Wis. Section 18. A group of twenty-one people in front of large brick house that has shutters, porch on at least two sides, trim aroun...
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A Family, their Carriage, and their House

Date: 1875
Description: An unidentified family proudly posed in front of their brick, Greek Revival home, with their carriage and team of horses. Although the location is unidenti...
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Women on Horses

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ...

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