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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: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w... |
| Date: | 09 30 1963 |
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| Description: | The "old stone barn" built by the Reeds as early settlers, now used by a member of the city police department as a family residence. |
| Date: | 01 13 1956 |
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| Description: | Edna Kern washing the windows outside her house. A cat is lying on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Curt Moore selling "one minute" washing machines to a farmer's wife. The washing machines are loaded in the back of an International "Red Baby" truck. The... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | A family is in a yard around a table. Behind them is a large brick house with four chimneys, railings on its front porch and latticework enclosing the side... |
| 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: | 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A large family is posed in the front yard around a table set with a white cloth and glassware, before a two-story bracket style house with a hip roof. The ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ralph Warner's backyard and house. |
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| Description: | A girl stands in a shrubbery arch in front of a house, probably the yard and house of the Spaulding family. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Mansion of Abram and Agnes Gaar, built in 1876. Gaar was one of the founders of the Gaar-Scott Company, manufacturers of steam engines and threshing machin... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of backyard areas, including some dilapidated houses and outbuildings. There are wood fences surrounding some of the yards, and laundry hangs... |
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| Description: | Marjorie Quinney and Henry and Howard Reynolds stand in front of the Reynold's family farmhouse with two horses and a dog. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Young boy drinking milk(?) from a glass while standing outdoors. A building or house is in the background. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron and holding a bowl is posing on the stairs of a cellar bulkhead on the side of a farmhouse. A bell on a wooden pole is next to the... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
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