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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Halvor and Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and their Home

Date: 1875
Description: Halvor Skavlem (middle?), Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and a friend standing near the fence in front of Skavlem's frame home, with an unidentified man reading on...
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Hops Field

Date: 1874
Description: Group of men, women and children gathered in a hops field, possibly that of Paul Saavles. The women are wearing hoods.
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Halver and Gunil Skavlem Posed in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: Two men, one of whom is Halver Skavlem, and a woman, Gunil Skavlem, are posed in a yard. One man reads the "Western Rural", a newspaper dated August 14, 18...
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Skavlem Family

Date: 1875
Description: The Skavlem family is around the table at the home of Lars H. Skavlem. A cloth, books, a vase of flowers and fruit are on the table. The two men on the r...
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Gullik K. Springen Family

Date: 1874
Description: Twenty-one members of the Gullik K. Springen family, and one dog, in a farmyard with carriage, two-story stone house, wood barn and stone barn in the backg...
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Woman Knitting with Family

Date: 1876
Description: Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ...
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Luther Valley Church

Date: 1871
Description: Side and front view of Luther Valley Church, built in 1872.
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Orfordville Lutheran Church

Date: 1872
Description: View from cornfield towards the Orfordville Lutheran Church, built in 1871-1872, surrounded by a white picket fence. The pastor at the time of the photogra...
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Pastor Claus Friman Magelssen and Family

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of Pastor Claus Friman Magelssen (1830-1904), his second wife Marie Schlambusch Magelssen, and their family sit around a table set for coffee. ...
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Pastor Claus Friman Magelssen with Family

Date: 1873
Description: Pastor Claus Friman Magelssen (1830-1904), his second wife Marie Schlambusch Magelssen, and their family sit around a table set for coffee in the foregroun...
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Gullik K. Springen and Family

Date: 1878
Description: This is possibly a Gullik K. Springen family portrait.
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International Delivery Truck in front of Bakery

Date: 07 15 1929
Description: View across street towards two men sitting in an International delivery truck. Behind them standing on the sidewalk are a man holding a loaf of braided bre...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Manure Spreader

Date: 11 04 1907
Description: Man using horse-drawn manure spreader in Newark Valley. Trees are in the background.
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Ideal Plating & Polishing Co. Truck

Date: 02 21 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a truck. In the background is a building and fence.
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Board of Education Supplies Truck

Date: 08 03 1928
Description: View of an International truck parked at an angle against a curb, with park benches and a park in the background. The sign on the side of the truck bed rea...
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Fleet of Laundry Delivery Trucks

Date: 08 03 1928
Description: View across cobblestone street towards a fleet of about nine trucks parked at an angle against the opposite curb. Behind them is a long brick industrial bu...
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Coal Delivery Trucks

Date: 08 03 1928
Description: View across street towards three men with coal delivery trucks parked in front of storefronts. Two of the men are standing near the driver's side door, and...

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