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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...
Photograph

Spring Prairie Lutheran Church

Date: 1872
Description: View of the Spring Prairie Lutheran Church, built in 1853 and replaced in 1886.
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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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Sacred Heart College

Date: 1872
Description: The main entrance and side of a campus building at Sacred Heart College. The structure appears to be made of several parts and additions, seen on the left.
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First Methodist Church

Date: 1872
Description: A view of the facade and side of the First Methodist Church. All visible windows are made of stained glass and the highly ornate steeple is partially obscu...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The American Spiritualist Masthead

Date: 1872
Description: Engraved masthead for The American Spiritualist depicting a seance over the word "phenomenal," a globe over the word "scientific," and a man at a de...
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Reverend Ole Amble

Date: 1872
Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Ole Amble, a Norwegian immigrant and Lutheran pastor, taken around the time he was a seminarian at Augsburg S...

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