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Family in Hats

Date: 1878
Description: A large group of people sitting around a table in the yard. The men and women are wearing hats. The table has a large piece of ornamental glassware on it. ...
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Family around Adorned Table

Date: 1878
Description: Two women, a young girl, two boys and a man are gathered around a table that has fruit displayed on plates. The man is sitting in an office chair. The fram...
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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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Family in Front Yard

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits in a front yard at a table with a picket fence in front of them and a wood frame house with shutters behind. Clothes are hanging on a line on...
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Family around Table near Frame House

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits around a table covered with books and decorated with flowers. Behind them is a front yard with a fence, gate and wood frame house with shutte...
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Family around Table in Yard

Date: 1878
Description: A family is in the yard around a table. A baby sits in a high chair and a man and woman are seated on a loveseat. Behind them is a frame house with an orga...
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Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen Entertains

Date: 1878
Description: The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898) on the right, his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen on the left and some visiting gentlemen, no doubt Luther...
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Family in Yard and on Porch

Date: 1878
Description: Extended family group of twenty-two people, some in work clothes, some elegantly dressed, stand in a yard and on the porch steps of an upright and wing fra...
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Family on Latticework Porch

Date: 1878
Description: A family of nine, and a dog, are posing standing in the yard of an upright and wing house with a porch nearly completely walled-in by latticework.
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Seated Family outside of Home

Date: 1878
Description: Seated family group with two children, in front of wing of frame house, with curtains in upstairs windows.
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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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Couple on Front Porch

Date: 1878
Description: Couple on front porch, man in hat, woman in bonnet, with chair on porch and grain of door noticeable; box underneath porch; brick foundation behind porch s...
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Dr. McConnell Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits in the yard of a large brick house that has round-top windows with two small windows on the third floor. The porch has a latticework skirting...
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Family in Yard with Carriage

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard with carriage with large stone house behind that has shutters closed. The house was built in 1845. Harmon J. Hill was the first supervisor o...
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Mapleside Home

Date: 1878
Description: Mapleside, the home built by Able Dunning in 1853 on what is now University Avenue. It was razed in 1970 to make way for a Burger King restaurant.
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Group by Centennial Fountain on Capitol Square

Date: 1878
Description: Group in front of the Centennial Fountain on Capitol Square. View of the capitol from Monona Avenue. The fountain is a replica of the Centennial Fountain...
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Chicago Traveling Club: Trip Eight

Date: 1878
Description: Group of men outside tent with "The Boss" sign above door and labels on some of the fellows' shirts saying, "CTC," an abbreviation for the Chicago Travelin...
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Boys of the Hawthorne, Chicago Traveling Club

Date: 1878
Description: Boys outside tent that has sign, "Boys of the Hawthorne" above its door. This picture is identified as the Chicago Traveling Club's trip #8.
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Chicago Traveling Club

Date: 1878
Description: A tent of the Chicago Traveling Club with a sign on it saying "Always Hungry," and men with walking sticks, straw hats and a flute lounging on the ground i...
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Crowded Pier and Steamboat

Date: 1878
Description: View from shoreline of a large crowd on a pier waiting for a crowded steam excursion boat.

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