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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Norwegian family posing with their household possessions, in front of their home. The man dressed in military uniform is a Civil War veteran. Madison, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women sit around a table in a yard. Behind them is a picket fence and a wood frame house. One woman holds a fan, another a book. One man ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The P. Gunhouse family is posed around a table in their yard. The baby sits in a high chair and the table is covered with books and flowers. The L-shaped f... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is seated around a table upon which are books and flowers. Behind them is a frame house with a person sitting on its porch. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A... |
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| Description: | View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m... |
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| Description: | An outdoor portrait of a young man standing near a porch. He is resting his hand on a book on a table. |
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