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Family Posed near Fence and Frame House

Date: 1872
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...
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Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen and Family

Date: 1879
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...
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Ashburn Family

Date: 1877
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...
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Family having Coffee outside House

Date: 1874
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...
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Family in Wooded Yard

Date: 1873
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.
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Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
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...
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D.W. Bronson Family

Date: 1874
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...
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Skavlem Family

Date: 1875
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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L.E. Johnson and B.F. Halin

Date: 1876
Description: Family, including a woman, young man and man sitting around table in a yard, with a two-story stone house with a porch on at least two sides. A young girl ...
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Mother with Baby and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard around table, with mother holding baby and doll. There is a doll carriage on the ground, and a long plank walkway leads to a brick house wit...
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Family by Plank Walkway

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard around table, with mother holding baby and doll. There is a doll carriage on the ground, and a long plank walkway leads to a brick house wit...
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Family of Eight

Date: 1876
Description: Family of eight seated in a semi-circle in yard with a stucco upright and wing house in the background.
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Family Outside of Stucco House

Date: 1871
Description: Family of eight seated in a semi-circle in a yard with a stucco upright and wing house in the background.
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Interior of Perry Lutheran Church Parsonage

Date: 1877
Description: Interior view of the Perry Lutheran Church parsonage, home of the Reverend Jacobson and family. Included in the view is a rocking chair, peacock feathers i...
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Parlor Interior of Herman Amberg Preus's Parsonage

Date: 1871
Description: View of a parlor interior (probably that of Herman Amberg Preus's parsonage) with a bay window and draperies, a statue, plants, an ornate clock on a table ...
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Rev. J.A. Ottesen's Library

Date: 1876
Description: Interior view of Reverend J.A. Ottesen's library, with a chair, a dictionary opened on a stand and a framed photograph on top of books on a shelf. Entitled...
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Camp 20

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of two men sitting in a room lined with bookshelves. There is a banjo leaning in the corner next to a window.
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Studio Photograph of Norwegian Bible

Date: 1879
Description: Norwegian Bible opened to the first page of the book of John.
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Students and Teacher Outside of School

Date: 1872
Description: One story schoolhouse with bell tower on roof and group of students and teacher in front. The scho0l is in a rural setting with a fence in the foreground.
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Funeral Party around Casket

Date: 1870
Description: A funeral party is assembled around a casket in front of an upright-and-wing frame house. Two older men on the left, one identified as Lars D. Reque, stan...

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