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Kingsley House

Date: 1872
Description: Exterior view of the Kingsley house with family in front. It has tall and narrow double-hung windows that are grouped in twos and etched. Carpenter's lace ...
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Family in Garden near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posed in their garden with a baby in its buggy and a woman holding her hat. The frame house behind them has a parapet roof, a porch with lattic...
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Jerome Skaalen and Family in front of House

Date: 1872
Description: A man, two women, and a girl are posed in a yard by a table. The frame house behind them has cut work trim on its side and front porch and brackets on open...
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Herman Amberg Preus Family plays Croquet

Date: 1872
Description: Herman Amberg Preus, his wife Caroline Keyser Preus, and their family, are in the yard playing croquet. One woman sits with a closed parasol in her hand, a...
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Group on Lawn and Porch of House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is in the yard around a table. A girl holds her doll in her lap. Behind them are two people standing in the yard, and more people on the porch of ...
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Family at end of Path

Date: 1872
Description: A family is sitting at the end of a tree-lined path on a hill leading up to a frame house with a porch. A boy is sitting on the porch roof, which is flat. ...
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Family in Yard with Music Box

Date: 1872
Description: A family sits around a table on which is a wooden box with a key lock and a hinged lid, possibly with a mirror inside the lid. (A jewelry box? a music box?...
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Family Posed in Street near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s...
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Family Posed near Fence and Frame House

Date: 1872
Description: An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i...
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Family of Fifteen by House

Date: 1872
Description: An extended family of fifteen stands in front of a wood frame house. On the left a man holds a black horse, and to the right of the doorway a woman sits at...
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Elderly Woman with Baby and Family

Date: 1872
Description: A family of eleven in the yard and on the porch, including an elderly woman holding a baby. The house is Greek Revival with a small porch and small windows...
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Children Standing in front of Wooden Fence

Date: 1872
Description: Six children standing in front of a wooden fence that has posts and a picket fence gate. A cat is sitting on the wooden walk behind them and their mother i...
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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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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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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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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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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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