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Anna Gourlay

Date: 01 25 1864
Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype portrait of Anna Martin Gourlay (1858-1864). She is seated, facing forward, wearing a short-sleeved dress, and holding a doll...
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Woodcut of Women with Child

Date: 1865
Description: A woodprint of women with frightened child entitled "The First Dip Into Salt Water."
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George W. Hall, Jr., Circus Performer

Date: 1868
Description: George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots.
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22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers

Date: 09 22 1862
Description: The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Railroad Depot

Date: 1869
Description: The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad depot. Included in the photograph is an omnibus operated by Major Throup.
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Kravig/Kravik Boys

Date: 1868
Description: Studio portrait of the Kravig/Kravik sons, one seated and one standing.
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Kravig/Kravik Girls

Date: 1868
Description: Studio portrait of the Kravig/Kravik daughters, one seated and one standing.
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Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
Description: This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth...
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Family on Garden Path

Date: 1869
Description: A view up a garden path leads past family members to a bracket-style frame house with outbuildings.
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Family Gathered by House

Date: 1869
Description: A family is standing and sitting in a yard of the porch of a upright and wing frame house that has a diamond shaped attic window, two doors in front and ha...
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Family in Yard

Date: 1869
Description: View over fence towards a family sitting in chairs or standing in the yard of a simple frame house that has railing along its porch's roof. There are many ...
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Family Playing Croquet

Date: 1869
Description: A family playing croquet in the yard of a frame house with three chimneys. A baby carriage is near the house on the left, and exterior cellar doors are on ...
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Couple with Two Girls

Date: 1869
Description: A couple and two girls stand among small trees in front of an upright and wing frame house with latticework above the porch.
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Eric Christiansen Farness Family

Date: 1869
Description: The Eric Christiansen Farness family stands in front of a three-story frame house with front projection. A wooden fence is in the foreground and clothes ar...
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Couples on Porch

Date: 1869
Description: View across yard towards two couples on the porch of a frame house, with two girls sitting on the side of the house on the right. Side windows of the house...
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Young Belle Case La Follette

Date: 1865
Description: Belle Case La Follette, later the wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., posed in a dress that her Grandmother Case spun, wove, and sewed for her.
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Family Portrait and Brick House

Date: 1869
Description: Family around table in yard with birch trees, and brick house with addition and shutters in background; porch has plants and two bird cages hanging from it...
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Knut Knudesen Family

Date: 1869
Description: Knut Knudesen family in yard of large brick house with shuttered windows, stone foundation and trellis at porch.
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Children Having a Picnic in Woods

Date: 1869
Description: Mixed group, mostly children, having a picnic in the woods, perhaps connected with the dedication of the East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church.
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Children Holding Hands

Date: 1869
Description: Portrait of two unidentified children holding hands while posing on homemade fancy chairs. The girl is dressed in a hand-me-down dress cut from a heavy woo...

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