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Syttende Mai

Date: 1875
Description: Large group at Syttende Mai celebration. Group posing with what may be the national and merchant flag of Norway flag. A number of people are holding croque...
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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
Book or Pamphlet

Halvor and Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and their Home

Date: 1875
Description: Halvor Skavlem (middle?), Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and a friend standing near the fence in front of Skavlem's frame home, with an unidentified man reading on...
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Moscow Library Association

Date: 1875
Description: Group portrait of the Moscow Laseselskab (the Moscow Library Association). Rasmus B. Anderson is probably in the group.
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Man and Family in Yard of Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: A man lies on the ground with a dog near the front door of his house. His wife and baby are posed on the steps of a side porch. The frame house has a stone...
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Ole Ashburn and Wife Seated in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house...
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Women and Children on Porch of House

Date: 1875
Description: Three women, two children and a dog stand on the porch of L-shaped house in a grove.
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Family Posed in front of House

Date: 1875
Description: A family poses in a front yard around a table that has flowers and cups on it. Behind them is a wood frame house with a sewing machine on its porch and a t...
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Family Dressed in Sunday Best

Date: 1875
Description: A family dressed in their Sunday clothes are gathered around a table that has flowers on it. The frame house behind them has shutters.
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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 on Garden Path by House

Date: 1875
Description: A family is seated around a table in the middle of a garden path, and a man stands on the porch of the frame house behind them. The house has carpenter's l...
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Halver and Gunil Skavlem Posed in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: Two men, one of whom is Halver Skavlem, and a woman, Gunil Skavlem, are posed in a yard. One man reads the "Western Rural", a newspaper dated August 14, 18...
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Group sits in Yard near House

Date: 1875
Description: A young boy, two men and four women are seated in a row the yard of a frame house with latticework on the porch foundations, brick steps on the side, small...
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Man and Children Relax in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: A man with a beard is sitting in a chair next to a boy and a girl, all posing with an informality unusual for a Dahl photograph. Behind them a younger man ...
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Van Norman Family

Date: 1875
Description: The Van Norman family seated outdoors in front of, and standing behind a fence with their frame L-shaped house behind.
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Hans A. Bringager and Erik Sviggum stand with Guests

Date: 1875
Description: Left to right, standing: Hans A. Bringager and Erik Sviggum; Seated: C. Gulson, Annie Pedersen, Mary Gulson Brager and her mother Thora Gulson; all gathere...
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Frame House with Fenced Yard

Date: 1875
Description: View from road down wooden sidewalk which runs adjacent to an elaborate fence along a yard, behind which women stand near the front porch of a frame house ...
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Group Posed near Greek Revival House

Date: 1875
Description: A substantial wood fence runs along and on the side of a Greek Revival house. A child is standing on the porch roof behind a railing, and other children ar...
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Family with Horses and Wagons

Date: 1875
Description: View uphill towards a family standing in a yard, some in wagons, behind a wood fence and picket gate. Behind them is a simple frame house with small window...
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Family Standing by Board Fence

Date: 1875
Description: A family of seven standing in a yard near a board fence in front of their frame house. A dog is sitting near the boy in the foreground. A man standing on t...

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