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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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children at the family home, later located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard, Village of Maple Bluff. (Th... |
| 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: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Officers and speakers attending the annual dinner meeting of the Wisconsin Council of Churches: front row, Dr. Hermann Morse, administrator of the Presbyte... |
| Date: | 01 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal correspondents, staff members, and guests attending the annual conference of correspondents in the Park Hotel. |
| Date: | 03 22 1949 |
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| Description: | The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn... |
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| Description: | Misses Armstrong, Stout, and Norton, and Mister Adams posed on steps before the door of a building hosting a Farmers' Institute Cooking School. |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Ginny Hall, a West High School senior, has a summer job caring for Sharon and Sandra Sinn, the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Sinn, 3405 Blackhawk Dr... |
| Date: | 10 23 1978 |
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| Description: | Staff of the "Guardian," the Marxist-Leninist weekly newspaper, taken on the 40th anniversary of the paper's establishment. The cake is decorated with a ha... |
| Date: | 03 02 2001 |
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| Description: | "Eve, is our waitress at Jeff's on Rugby in Oshkosh." Note the book at the head of the table. It is volume C of the fish fry collection. |
| Date: | 03 14 2008 |
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| Description: | "Nick was our waiter at the American Legion in Horicon." From left to right; Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Carl Bernhard, Nick, and Shirley Widmer. An album of th... |
| Date: | 06 20 2008 |
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| Description: | "Brittany was the cook and waitress at Rusty's Pub-N-Grub." From left to right: Ralph "Buddy" Ruecker, Carl Bernhard, Shirley Widmer, and Brittany. Jim Wid... |
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