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First Dutch Settlers

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Description: Dutch family posing outside their log home with two horses.
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Oak Hill Farm with Couple

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Description: View of Oak Hill Farm, including the farmhouse. In the foreground are a man standing on the left, a woman sitting with a cat in her lap, and a dog.
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Seneca Native American Family

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Description: A group portrait of a Seneca Native American family, with a man, woman, four children, and a kitten. Caption reads: "Seneca Indian Family, Salamanca, N.Y."
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Home and Yard

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Description: A view of a small home and yard. Flowering ivy covers the home, and several flowering plants are in the front yard. One cat sits on the walk and another si...
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Family in Living Room

Date: 1910
Description: View of a family relaxing in the living room of their home. Features men, women, and children sitting around a table. Caption reads: "A Happy Home in Orogr...
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Emma Ketel Sewing

Date: 1900
Description: Emma Ketel sits on a sofa sewing with a cat curled up next to her.
Print

Neverland, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

Date: 1965
Description: Holiday card with a drawing of a vacation home on the front, and a picture of the family in front of their Volkswagen bus on the inside. The family has a C...
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Nellie Arms and Her Cat

Date: 10 24 1954
Description: Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard.
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Family with Pets and Dead Fox

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Description: A family poses outdoors in the snow in front of their house. The father proudly holds a dead fox. The mother and youngest child stand on the left, and the ...
Print

Goff's Restaurant Menu

Date: 01 16 1958
Description: Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t...
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Kissinger Family Greetings

Date: 10 1968
Description: Judy and Clark Kissinger, along with their daughters Jennifer and Jessica, send greetings to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the form of a popular finger gest...
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Kitten

Date: 12 1905
Description: A kitten enjoying the sunlight while sitting on a piece of fabric on a table near a window. There is a pincushion on the table, a lace curtain in the windo...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
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Toddler and Cat

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Description: A toddler is standing outdoors on a wooden landing while holding onto a chair with a potted plant on it. A cat is sitting nearby on the left, looking back ...
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Walnut Grove House

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Description: Slightly elevated view looking at side of manor house with porch. A boy is sitting on a tricycle on the left, and two dogs, blurred by movement are moving ...

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