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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
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| Description: | Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind a home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported bran... |
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| Description: | Amos Elliot, pioneer stage coach driver, enjoying a quiet evening at home with his second wife, and her daughter (center), Stella Hart. |
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| Description: | A girl sits in a rocking chair as a young woman commands a dog who is dressed in dark clothing to sit. A piano or organ is in the background. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Eight people posing in front of a one-story clapboard house holding possessions. The man on the far left is holding a gun and wears a ammunition belt aroun... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair knitting in front of a window. |
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| Description: | Two women, man, and child having tea in a parlor. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Woman putting on a hat in front of a dressing table mirror. |
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| Description: | A woman (possibly a member of the Weller family) sweeps a board sidewalk with a broom. On the left is the Weller home, and next to it is the Carl Lund hous... |
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| Description: | A woman washes clothes in a tub on the back steps of a farmhouse. In the background, clothes hang on a clothesline. |
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| Description: | Two women work in a garden. One of the women is picking vegetables, while the other woman hangs laundry. |
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| Description: | Four women sit in or near a hammock and attend to their embroidery while a young boy sits at their feet. |
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| Description: | A group of men and women eat at a table underneath a tent awning. |
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| Description: | A large group of people sit outdoors at a long table underneath an awning. Probably at the Matt Olson Farm Campground, presently the site of Perry Creek Pa... |
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| Description: | Seven women and two men gather for tea, while one of the men plays a guitar. They are posed in the corner of a room. |
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| Description: | Five women pose for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop with various household articles such as an iron, feather duster, platter, cup, pitcher,... |
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