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Fourth of July Picnic

Date: 1900
Description: Group at 4th of July Picnic in a field.
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Picnickers in Wagon with Kern Family

Date: 1900
Description: Kern family with other picnickers in a horse-drawn wagon.
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Ada Bass and Daughter Everetta with Horse

Date: 1890
Description: Ada Bass and her daughter Everetta standing on the front porch of their home. Ada is holding onto the reins of a horse named Niger.
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Cary Bass and his Uncle Cary

Date: 1900
Description: Cary Bass, his Great Uncle Cary, and a dog, posing in front of the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street.
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Ada Bass and Son Cary Posing with Lizzie Loote

Date: 1900
Description: Ada Bass, seated, with son Cary holding a toy dog. Standing next to them is Lizzie Loote. They are on the steps of the Bass family home at 131 East Montell...
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Avery School House

Date: 1900
Description: Woman and child standing on the steps of the Avery School House. A horse and carriage stand nearby.
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Cary Bass in Horse Cart with Children

Date: 1900
Description: Cary Bass (most likely the child sitting with feet hanging over the cart), with a group of 5 unidentified children. They are all in a horse-drawn cart in a...
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Boy Driving a Goat Cart

Date: 1900
Description: Boy, identified as Joe, driving a goat pulling a cart.
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Children on Parade Float

Date: 1900
Description: Group of children seated on horse-drawn parade float covered in American flags. They are preceeded by a cart with musicians, and are followed by two women ...
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Men with Horses on Parade

Date: 1900
Description: Parade with costumed men on horses, a band being pulled in a wagon and American flags.
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Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Man, identified as Stevens, and his family posing outdoors.
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Dr. Edward A. Bass Family on Pile of Hay

Date: 1895
Description: Dr. Edward A. Bass, photographer, seated in pile of hay holding his son, Cary. Seated in front of him are his wife, Ada, and daughter, Everetta. Horse iden...
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Group Along the Shore

Date: 1900
Description: Group of children and adults on a lawn along the shore. Gentleman on the right is mowing the lawn. A young boy is playing with a dog in front of two girls ...
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Excavating for New Building

Date: 07 1908
Description: Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w...
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Excavating for New Building

Date: 07 1908
Description: Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store.
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Everetta and Cary in Buggy

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta and Cary Bass in a horse-drawn carriage with an unidentified woman. Behind them is a fence, trees, and a field.
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Leroy Burlingame, Children and Cuff

Date: 1896
Description: The photographer's father-in-law, Leroy J. Burlingame, with Everetta and Cary Bass and the dog, Cuff in the yard of a house. An unidentified woman stands ...
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Cary with Dog in the Dells

Date: 1903
Description: The photographer's son, Cary Bass, and a dog on a rock formation in the Wisconsin Dells near the Wisconsin River. In the background there is writing on a r...
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World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ...
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After the Fire

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of two barefoot children who are near a charred wooden sidewalk, lower left, that marks the course of Nebraska (now West Montello) Street tow...

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