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Woman Reading Magazine

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Description: Woman reading "House Beautiful" magazine at Greenwood House.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered: Eating On Board

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Description: Stereograph of a group of raftsmen eating at a table onboard a lumber raft near the shoreline.
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Television

Date: 1950
Description: A young woman is displaying a television set.
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Neils Hallanger Family Relaxes in Yard

Date: 1877
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 ...
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Herman Amberg Preus and Wife with Visitors

Date: 1876
Description: Herman Amberg Preus, his wife Caroline Keyser Preus and their visitors are seated in a large semicircle with baby in carriage in center; frame house with c...
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Andrew Amundsen Family Pose near House

Date: 1870
Description: The Andrew Amundsen family posing in front of their frame house with some of their furniture. A quilt is on the back of one chair and a shawl is on the bac...
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Prisoners of War Washing Clothes

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr...
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Unpacking Apples

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of people eat and help unload crates of apples from a U-Haul trailer in the campground area of the Sound Storm music festival during the constructi...
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Dining Room

Date: 1929
Description: View down middle of the dining room at Berry's Coldwater Canyon Resort. Female servers stand along the walls near the tables.
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Dogs Eating Ice Cream

Date: 07 1956
Description: Dogs in a car being fed ice cream cones by a man standing on the sidewalk and a woman sitting inside the car. The car is a Rambler Custom. Across the stree...
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A Corner of the Dining Room at Edgewater Hotel "On The River"

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Description: Two waitresses are standing at the back of the dining room at the Edgewater Hotel. All the tables are set with silverware and glasses.
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Riverview Free Campground

Date: 1927
Description: The campsites among the trees and tall grass at Riverview Campground. A few tents are set up, and a group of guests are around a picnic table.
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Oscar and Raccoon

Date: 1935
Description: Oscar, an employee at the State Experimental Game and Fur Farm, feeding a raccoon which is riding on his shoulder. The raccoon is grasping Oscar's hand wit...
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Dinner Party in a Mid-Century Modern Home

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Description: Four men sitting around a long dining table after a casual meal. At the head of the table is Ken Harley, the original home owner who started to build the h...
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Jean (Bayles) Kirking instructs three of her children, Duane, Ann, and Bruce in the technique of stringing popcorn and cranberries and paper chains to deco...
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Young Boy with the Three Bears

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Description: A young boy is sitting at a table with three stuffed bears, in a room decorated as if from the story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." The wall is paint...

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