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Elevated View of Town

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of town, probably looking south from the Van Schaick residence.
Photograph

Mailman and His Family

Date: 1890
Description: On the right a mailman is standing with his horse and cart. The cart is labeled "RFD Route No.1" and "U.S. Mail." Members of his family, one boy and one gi...
Photograph

High Wheel Bicyclist

Date: 1890
Description: Young man riding a High Wheel or Penny-Farthing bicycle on a wooden sidewalk. There is a house behind the rider on the left. A young tree braced with a sta...
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Loggery Cottage

Date: 1890
Description: The “loggery” cottage built for James Duane Doty.
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Streetcar MARGUERITE

Date: 1890
Description: Special open streetcar called the MARGUERITE, with elaborate lighting, decorations, movable chairs and other features.
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Old Falls Village

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated view of Falls Village from the cemetery looking south.
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House Where General Reynolds' Body was Carried, Gettysburg

Date: 1890
Description: View across road towards the house where General Reynolds' body was taken after he was killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Book or Pamphlet

Planet Jr. Implement Catalogue Cover

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of the Planet Jr. catalog. Features an illustration of a man and young girl (about 5 or 6 years old) in a garden pushing a Planet Jr. Garden Drill to...
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Five High Wheeler Bicycle Riders

Date: 1890
Description: Five teenagers ride "High Wheeler or Penny-Farthing" bicycles down the street. Grand Avenue Congregational Church is in the background. Mature trees are on...
Photograph

Lake Shore Porter's Park

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph view along shoreline of Geneva Lake at Porter's Park. A man sits in a canoe at the rocky shoreline while a woman sits and reads on a rustic ben...
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Porter's Park

Date: 1890
Description: Stereograph view from footbridge with rustic railings of a small boy wearing a large hat standing at the end of the footbridge. A group of adults and anoth...
Photograph

Man Feeding Doves

Date: 1890
Description: Man feeding fantail doves on a lawn at Oakwood Sanitarium. The sanitarium is in the background behind trees.
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Outdoor group portrait of loggers with their tools near their lodge.
Photograph

Logging Scene

Date: 1890
Description: Elevated group portrait of loggers at a logging camp posing in the snow. Some of the men are posing on the roof of the log building in the center. Men are ...
Photograph

George Brumder, Sons and Friends

Date: 1890
Description: An outdoor group portrait of George Brumder, sitting in a bent willow chair at far left; Dr. Herman Duemling, sitting in the center, and Julius Andrae, sit...
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Brumder House

Date: 1890
Description: A view of the west (10th Street) facade of the two-story brick Italianate house at the northeast corner with Wells Street, purchased by George Brumder in 1...
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Brumder House

Date: 1890
Description: A view of the south (Wells Street) side of the two-story brick Italianate house at the corner of 10th Street purchased by George Brumder in 1882. An uniden...
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1890
Description: An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ...

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