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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
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| 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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| Description: | Two women and three men are posing in a yard. One man is holding a shotgun, another a carpenter's saw. The frame house behind them has a small front porch ... |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | The Onon Bjorn Dahle Store with a pile of boxes to the left and a cornfield on the right. |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J. Green & Co. Store, a frame building with a false front, a third-story fan window and two full windows. Men stand nearby with farm i... |
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| 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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| Description: | A family of eight around a small table set for coffee. Behind them is an upright and wing frame house with two small windows above the porch roof. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of female students working in the fields with hoes. Behind them are college buildings. |
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| Description: | Detail from original. Original caption reads: "A farmer driving a horse-drawn wagon with milk cans. Behind him is a frame structure, possibly a cheese fact... |
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