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Fudge Party

Date: 1890
Description: College students at the University of Wisconsin having a fudge-making party around a small gas burner.
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Family and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Family and farm implements in a field with farm buildings and haystacks in the background.
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View of the Dining Tent

Date: 1876
Description: Quite possibly this is the "View of the Dining Tent" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Guard" ...
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F.A. Schmidt and Family

Date: 1877
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'...
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Turvill Family Picking Strawberries

Date: 1897
Description: The Turvill family picking strawberries on their family farm. Five family members, men and women, are crouched in the field picking, and a young girl stand...
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A Summer Sitting Room

Date: 07 08 1896
Description: An informal group is seated under an awning in the garden of the Fairchild house at 302 Monona Avenue (later renamed Martin Luther King Boulevard). Picture...

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