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| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a hill of an alley connecting Park Hill Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue, looking west from the Interurban Line. There is a person on top ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family in yard, with a woman holding a baby. There is a girl with an apron-type dress with frame house behind that has nicely cut woodwork on porch. There ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated are Mrs. Guri Gaarden Thompson (mother), one of the Thompson twins, John Thompson (rear), Thosten Thompson (son) and Mr. Thosten Thompson (father). ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Theodore Parman and his wife Louise stand second and third from the left behind their home's fence. Their daughters can be seen in the windows and the... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Twenty-one members of the Gullik K. Springen family, and one dog, in a farmyard with carriage, two-story stone house, wood barn and stone barn in the backg... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Onon Bjorn Dahle and family stand before their substantial two-story bracket style stone house. It has a hipped roof, shutters and a picket fence. Onon Bjo... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Family seated in yard around set table drinking coffee. Behind them is an upright and wing stone house with a frame addition and latticework and board fenc... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Family seated around table in yard with stone house and frame addition in back; wood fence along side of house. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Souvenir postcard showing a view of the Cutler house and Morris D. Cutler. Caption reads: "Souvenir postcard of centennial celebration of the founding of W... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The Robert Lamp house, 22 North Butler Street, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. A man wearing a coat and hat is standing at the front right corne... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of South Twelfth Street. There is a child standing in the center of the street holding onto a wagon in which another child is sitting. A chur... |
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| Description: | Campground for employees of the Nelson Weber Construction Company photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Association during the early 1920s. Such facili... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Built in 1840 by Lemuel Hull. William Singer was the mason. The basement was made by lowering the hill. There were originally only two stories. First ... |
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| Description: | Four children play outside in a yard. One of the children hides behind another and is hardly visible. |
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