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Ole Ashburn and Wife Seated in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: This is identified as the Jacob Larsen farm, but pictured are Ole Ashburn and his second wife seated in the yard with a table between them. The frame house...
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Family Posed in front of House

Date: 1875
Description: A family poses in a front yard around a table that has flowers and cups on it. Behind them is a wood frame house with a sewing machine on its porch and a t...
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Family Posed in front of Gothic Revival House

Date: 1875
Description: A very formal family is seated around a table ornamented with glassware. Men strike poses in the yard. Behind them is a large wood frame Victorian house wi...
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Family posed around Table in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: A large family group is gathered around a table for coffee. The women are holding bunches of flowers, and behind them is a large bracket style house with a...
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Formal Family around Table

Date: 1877
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...
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Family around Table near Frame House

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits around a table covered with books and decorated with flowers. Behind them is a front yard with a fence, gate and wood frame house with shutte...
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Family Posing near Porch of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family stands in the yard, on the porch, and on the porch roof of an impressive house with elegant scrollwork on its porch posts and roof. A bird cage ha...
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Family on Chairs in Yard

Date: 1873
Description: Family (three men, three women), in yard with frame house, that has a wood bench and hanging plants on porch. There are vines along sides of front door, an...
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Skavlem Family

Date: 1875
Description: The Skavlem family is around the table at the home of Lars H. Skavlem. A cloth, books, a vase of flowers and fruit are on the table. The two men on the r...
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L.E. Johnson and B.F. Halin

Date: 1876
Description: Family, including a woman, young man and man sitting around table in a yard, with a two-story stone house with a porch on at least two sides. A young girl ...
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Wedding Party

Date: 1910
Description: Wedding party posed in front of the Edward Lindner home.
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Soldiers Monument

Date: 1898
Description: Women congregate near "The Victorious Charge," a monument to Soldiers who fought in the Civil War located in Milwaukee's Court of Honor on the median betwe...
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West Side Garden Club Garden Show

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Garden show and tea at which the West Side Garden Club entertained other garden clubs of the Madison area. Mrs. Fred D. Chamberlin, left, and Mrs. F.H. Da...
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Shivers Men with Flowers and Cake

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Description: Three men from the Shivers family pose holding cakes and vases of flowers. One of the men is Tom Shivers and one is Algie Shivers, and the other man is uni...
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Bringing Food to the Table

Date: 08 14 1956
Description: Elizabeth Schlotthauer sets a buffet table on her porch. The photograph was part of a spread for WSJ's Centennial Cookbook recipe contest.
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Wedding Day

Date: 09 1913
Description: Wedding day of Alice Armstrong Ashmun, Mary's niece, to Edwin Trenbath. They are standing in wedding attire in front of a porch while Alice is cradling a ...
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Eliphalet Miner Home

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Description: An Italianate style home, with a small balcony above the front entrance. The windows on the main section of the house are arched and have matching arched s...
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Mr. and Mrs. William Goetsch

Date: 1922
Description: William Goetsch and his wife Bertha Krueger Goetsch standing outdoors between two chairs, each wearing a corsage. Bertha is holding a bouquet of flowers in...
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Outdoor Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. William Goetsch

Date: 1908
Description: Outdoor portrait of William Goetsch and his wife, Bertha Krueger Goetsch, sitting in chairs on a lawn. They are each wearing a corsage, and William's hat i...
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William O'Hearn Residence

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Description: Outdoor view across lawn towards a two-story wood-frame house. Flowers in vases and plants in pots are arranged on the porch, and a dog is standing in the ...

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