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Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
Description: This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth...
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Family having Coffee outside House

Date: 1874
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...
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Family at Side of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is posing at the side of a house. A man and boy are holding rifles, and a dog is lying on the ground between the. There is a baby sitting in a hig...
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Large Family around Table for Coffee

Date: 1873
Description: A family of sixteen in yard around table set for coffee. Three men are in the background, one holding a shotgun. There is a frame house with shutters and s...
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Girl with Washing Machine and Mogul Jr. Engine

Date: 1915
Description: A small girl using a Mogul Junior 1 HP stationary engine to power a washing machine located on the porch of a house. There is a cream separator on the left...
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Woman Washing Clothes

Date: 1916
Description: A woman standing on the back porch of a home uses a Mogul stationary engine to power a washing machine.
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Sleeping Porch

Date: 1925
Description: Four beds line either side of the sleeping porch at the farmhouse of J.E. Joyce. A telephone is hanging on the wall and striped curtains are covering the o...
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Farm Building: Wooden House

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of a wooden house, with a family, including a man, woman, dog and child on the porch. The woman is using a sewing machine near the open front...
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Group with Deer in front of House

Date: 1905
Description: The family hunters and their deer in front of a house.

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