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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: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Neils Hallanger family is posed in their yard around a table piled with books. One lady is posed with a parasol and servant women sit on a sofa in the ... |
| 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: | Family in yard around table, with mother holding baby and doll. There is a doll carriage on the ground, and a long plank walkway leads to a brick house wit... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family in front yard around two tables set for coffee, tea and perhaps some other beverage. Frame house in back has a sign for grass seed from Whitewater o... |
| 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | F.A. Schmidt, professor of theology at the Norwegian Lutheran Seminary, with his family on the grounds of the seminary, formerly the Soldiers' and Orphans'... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898), his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen and their eight children sit around a table in the yard of their hous... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A family group of eleven sits around a table with a pitcher and books before the farm house of Knud Gjesma. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a... |
| 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: | 09 1899 |
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| Description: | Outdoor family portrait of Mary Turvill McConnell, Elizabeth Turvill Wood, and Jessie Turvill Thwaites. They are sitting on a porch in front of windows wit... |
| 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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