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| 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: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Ole Wettlesen family poses in the yard in front of a picket fence with women knitting. Two standing men appear to be examining an unfolded map. The fra... |
| 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: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A child sits on a rotten wooden well covering while playing in the mud with a piece of metal and holding a can marked "Salted Pecans." An automobile is in ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card with two carolers, one violin player and a woman carrying a boar's head on a platter. In the background is a decorative gold fence over black.... |
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| Description: | Hand-painted holiday card of three African American children eating watermelon. One girl sits on the ground, a boy has a watermelon in his lap, and the sec... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background. |
| Date: | 07 1903 |
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| Description: | Mary Krueger knitting in a rocking chair in the yard while her grandchildren are sitting on the ground beside her. Jennie Krueger is sitting to her right, ... |
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