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Herman Amberg Preus Family and Visitors

Date: 1872
Description: The Herman Amberg Preus family and visitors, all wearing hats, are playing croquet in their yard. One child is on a rocking horse and another child is by a...
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Adults at a Table Near House

Date: 1872
Description: Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev...
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Woman with Parasol near House

Date: 1872
Description: A woman (blurred by movement) stands with a parasol in front of a crude picket fence in front of a Greek Revival frame house. Children are standing in the ...
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Family in front of Fence

Date: 1872
Description: A family poses in front of a fence, including women with parasols, a man with a horse, a man standing on a fence and a woman and two children on the porch ...
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Family with Young Children

Date: 1872
Description: A mother, father, four children and two babies in a yard with a frame house behind, in a heavily wooded area.
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Carla Burton Residence

Date: 1872
Description: Two women and a man stand in a garden that has trellises with Greek Revival frame house in background. The house has a small one story addition in back. Fa...
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Family Standing in front of Wood Fence

Date: 1872
Description: Family in front of a wood fence with one man sitting on top of it. A woman holds a baby and child on small front porch of frame house behind. There is an a...
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William Bullock Family

Date: 1872
Description: The William Bullock family is posed before a stone upright and wing house with carpenter's lace brackets and trim on its porch.
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Onon Bjorn Dahle and Family

Date: 1872
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...
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Ole Bull Residence

Date: 1872
Description: Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields.
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Family by Onon Bjorn Dahle Store

Date: 1872
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...
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J. Green and Co. Store

Date: 1872
Description: Elevated view of the J. Green & Co. store, a frame building with a false front and a third story fan window. Men with farm implements stand nearby with hor...
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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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Boy on Horse Amid Picnickers

Date: 1872
Description: Group in field on picnic with flag, man on horse and people in carriages. A boy is standing on horse in the background. Photograph for "Mr. Miller."
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Women in Oak Hill Cemetery

Date: 1872
Description: Two woman sitting in Oak Hill Cemetery. Board fencing, with a set of steps near the gate, surrounds the graveyard. Picket fences set off some of the headst...
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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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William Bullock Family

Date: 1872
Description: Group portrait of the William Bullock family, a group of eleven adults and children in front of an ivy covered wall.
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Family posed in Chairs

Date: 1872
Description: A family of twelve is seated in chairs in the yard of an upright and wing house.

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