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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: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table loaded with books and potted plants. Children sit on soap boxes in front, including a girl with a doll. The frame house... |
| 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: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Neils Hallanger family is posed in their yard around a table piled with books. One lady is posed with a parasol and servant women sit on a sofa in the ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Neils Hallanger family is gathered in their yard around a table with books on it and a love seat behind. The frame house has a bay window and a stone f... |
| 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: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A large family group and a dog are posed around a table that has large books on it. The frame house behind them has a sway in its roof. A well with a wood ... |
| 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: | 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.... |
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