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House with Picket Fence

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Description: View from the road of a frame house behind a picket fence, with cut work, shutters, and lightning rods by each chimney and a well in front of the fence. V...
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Andrew Amundsen's Farm

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Description: Elevated view of Andrew Amundsen's farm. A man with horses is at a well in the foreground. The well utilizes a well sweep. A barn, house and granary are on...
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Family Posed in Yard of House

Date: 1878
Description: A large family group and a dog are posed around a table that has large books on it. The frame house behind them has a sway in its roof. A well with a wood ...
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Reverend Erik Jensen and Wife with Children

Date: 1875
Description: Twenty-one children are seated on wooden benches and the ground in front of a square frame house with a hip roof and cupola. The Reverend Erik Jensen (1841...
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Family Grouped around Table by House

Date: 1879
Description: A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin...
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Large Family with Dog

Date: 1879
Description: Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do...
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Family Standing on Porch

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background.
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People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
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 ...
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Family in front of Frame House

Date: 1870
Description: Family sitting in chairs in front of fence, with two men standing behind the fence near a well wearing top hats. A frame house with a porch is behind them.
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Abandoned Farm

Date: 09 04 1960
Description: Exterior view of an abandoned, two-story farmhouse. A large tree is in the foreground. The base of a windmill is on the left, with a water pump stamped "Hu...
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Syl at Soldiers' Home

Date: 07 23 1898
Description: Syl stands in front of a pavilion with a well or water pump in a park. A group of adults dressed fashionably stand in the pavilion while drinking water fro...
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Sunset Forest Arbor

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Description: A small group sits under an ivy-covered arbor which covers what appears to be a fresh water well. The arbor is set in the woods and bears a horse-shoe shap...
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Resort Home

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Description: A view of a two-story resort home and yard. A small water well with a wooden roof is on the right.
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Wallace Bruce and Girl at Alpine Park

Date: 1910
Description: Wallace Bruce and a young girl rest at Alpine Park, near DeFuniak Springs. He is sitting on a well, and the girl is standing beside him under a covered she...
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West Side Garden Club Garden Show

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Garden show and tea at which the West Side Garden club entertained other garden clubs of the Madison area. Mrs. T.M. Gordon, left, Ruth E. (Mrs. Arthur) T...
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Well with Well-Sweep

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Description: A well in a clearing with a wooden bucket hanging from a "well-sweep."
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Artesian Well

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Description: A man with a small glass or cup stands next to an artesian-style well spouting water. Caption reads: "Artesian Well, Hallettsville, Texas."
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High School

Date: 1925
Description: View of the front of the high school. The grounds feature a hand-pump water well and a flag post.
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Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge

Date: 1936
Description: Exterior of Log Cabin Lodge on Lake Millicent, a one-story log cabin with stone foundation with two doors on the right. There is a water pump outside the c...
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View down unpaved road of a filling station. Along the side of the station on the left is a hand-pump, and a large tank lying on its side. Three buildings ...

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