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Farm Family Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Farm family posing in front of a log home. There is a man on crutches in the center, a woman is holding a small child standing on a table, and two children...
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Norwegian Community Picnic

Date: 1873
Description: Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ...
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Dining Room at Lumber Camp

Date: 1885
Description: Dining room, probably at D. Sullivan's lumber camp.
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Christian Frautschi Furniture Store

Date: 1895
Description: Members of the Frautschi family pose at the Christian Frautschi Furniture Store. From left to right are Alice, Irving, Christian and Arthur Frautschi.
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McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1890
Description: Lithograph illustration for the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a gentleman sitting in a Victorian parlor pointing to...
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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
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...
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Maffet Family, Four Generations

Date: 03 23 1945
Description: Group portrait of four generations of the Maffet family. Left to right: David John Maffet in uniform (b. 5/31/1922), Ellen Gardener McDermott (b. 8/8/1858)...
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Passover Supper

Date: 03 27 1945
Description: Close-up group portrait of Abe and Sarah Mintz's family gathered around the dining room table for Passover supper, 336 West Wilson Street.
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Passover Supper

Date: 03 27 1945
Description: Abe and Sarah Mintz's family gathered around the dining room table for Passover supper, 336 West Wilson Street.
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Frank Family Banquet

Date: 03 15 1936
Description: Frank family banquet at the Morris L. Frank restaurant, located at 611 Chapman Street. The family were Greenbush residents.
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Group Portrait of Ernest Kalar Family

Date: 05 03 1931
Description: Group portrait of Ernest Kalar, his wife, and three children. There is a Victrola phonograph on a table in the background on the left.
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Family at Dining Room Table

Date: 1900
Description: A family poses at the dining room table after dinner in Luther Valley.
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Kern Family at the Supper Table

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: The Kern family, Edna, Nancy, Ernest, and Maribeth, at the supper table.
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Woman with Two Children

Date: 1882
Description: Woman sitting in a chair reading, with one child on a rocking horse and another child in a high chair.
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Party Banquet for Gardner Baking Co. Families

Date: 04 11 1928
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. families wearing paper party hats sitting at two long banquet tables. There are Purity Bread signs over the tables whi...
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Family Posed near Frame House

Date: 1874
Description: A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the...
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Adults at a Table Near House

Date: 1872
Description: Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev...
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Family in front of Picket Fence

Date: 1874
Description: Family in front of picket fence, with L-shaped frame house with porch and high stone foundation.
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Halle Steensland with Wife and Children

Date: 1876
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children at the family home, later located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard, Village of Maple Bluff. (Th...
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Double Image of Family and Two Boys

Date: 1898
Description: Two exposures of interior portraits. Left is a seated woman holding on to smaller boy both looking left, with seated man and standing older boy facing forw...

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