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Farmyard with Implements

Date: 1878
Description: Family in farmyard with farm implements, including a grain seeder and a threshing machine. Men are standing on top of hay in a wagon. Farm buildings and a ...
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People on Wagon in front of Barn

Date: 1878
Description: People are sitting in a horse-drawn wagon and standing next to farm machinery, including a dump rake and a hay mower. A barn is behind them.
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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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Distant View of Field and Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: View across a field towards barns and a house surrounded by fences.
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Boys in Grain Field near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: Boys in field with shocks of grain, foreground, with log buildings and farmstead in the background.
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Family Playing Croquet near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield.
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Family and Carriage

Date: 1878
Description: This image is one of many taken by Dane County photographer Andreas Larsen Dahl. Many of them depict family posed in front of their homes wearing their bes...
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Family Posed in front of Wood Frame House

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits in a yard around a table with a girl holding an opened hand fan. The wood frame house behind them has a piano on its porch.
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Tollef Olsen Family

Date: 1878
Description: The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to...
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Thosten Thompson Family

Date: 1878
Description: Seated are Mrs. Guri Gaarden Thompson (mother), one of the Thompson twins, John Thompson (rear), Thosten Thompson (son) and Mr. Thosten Thompson (father). ...
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Pond and Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: View from above, of a pond and a farmstead. A man is in a boat on the water and another man is in a wagon on shore near a fence. In the background are so...
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William M. Jones House and Farm

Date: 1878
Description: View towards a house and farm buildings. Caption reads: "Barneveld, Wis. Vic[inity]. Ridgeway Twp [township], Hwy [Highway] K. House built 1878 by William ...

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