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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered outdoors around a table with plants and books. A girl holds a doll and next to her a boy sits on a soap box. The frame house behind th... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A family is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence. Three of the adults are holding books, one man is holding a long pipe and a girl is holding ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A family is posed around a table on which are many thick books and a stereoscope. Most of the men, especially the twin boys, have assumed heroic postures. ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is in a yard around a table with books on it. One woman holds a fan, another sits in a rocking chair with a shawl on its back. A fence and open ga... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A family is posed around two trees in a yard. A man sits on a chaise lounge and a woman in a striped dress sits in a rocking chair with a shawl on its back... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The R. Daniel Rickelsen Rickelsen family is gathered around a table in a yard. A man holds a stick, and a clay pipe sits on the table. The frame house behi... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A picket fence is in the right corner of the foreground. Behind it is a family gathered formally around a table in the yard of a frame house with a shallow... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family seated around a table in the yard of house. On the table are books, and a statue of a horse and rider. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Andrew Amundsen family is sitting around a table covered in a white knit cloth. Some of them are holding books. Their frame house is in the background.... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898), his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen, and their eight children sit around a table in the yard of their hou... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family posing in a wooded yard. One man holds a wooden flute. Behind them is a Greek Revival house with a Madison Mutual insurance sign over the door. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family, perhaps that of D.W. Bronson, is posed by the picket fence in their yard. Two of the women hold small books. A tree stump in the foreground serve... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The Skavlem family is around the table at the home of Lars H. Skavlem. A cloth, books, a vase of flowers and fruit are on the table. The two men on the r... |
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