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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a large, multi-generational Norwegian family and friends gathered for a picnic celebration. In the foreground are picnic baskets ... |
| Date: | 08 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums. |
| 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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| 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: | 1897 |
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| Description: | The parlor in the home of Dr. Edward Bass showing a parlor organ near a window, and other furnishings. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Self-portrait of Dr. Edward Bass reading in his parlor. Several prints of his own photographs decorate the room. There is a parlor organ on the right. |
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| Description: | Four well-dressed people relax in a parlor. They are reading, sewing and playing the piano. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Sitting room in Polperro House. Rocking chairs and a bench are by the fire in the fireplace. A corner china cabinet is on the right near a window. |
| Date: | 04 30 1889 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first two pages of the souvenir menu for the centennial of George Washington's inauguration at the Hotel Marlborough. The cover features a ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | An assortment of Christmas gifts are arranged around the base of a Christmas tree in the living room of the George Brumder house at the corner of 10th and ... |
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