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Elderly Woman with Baby and Family

Date: 1872
Description: A family of eleven in the yard and on the porch, including an elderly woman holding a baby. The house is Greek Revival with a small porch and small windows...
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Children Standing in front of Wooden Fence

Date: 1872
Description: Six children standing in front of a wooden fence that has posts and a picket fence gate. A cat is sitting on the wooden walk behind them and their mother i...
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Eric Christiansen Farness Family

Date: 1869
Description: The Eric Christiansen Farness family stands in front of a three-story frame house with front projection. A wooden fence is in the foreground and clothes ar...
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Family Playing Croquet

Date: 1870
Description: A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right.
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Family of Seven near Modest House

Date: 1873
Description: A family of seven is posed around a table in the yard of a very modest house with a latticework porch. The men wear hats and a woman holds a baby. The hous...
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Herman Amberg Preus Family and Visitors

Date: 1872
Description: The Herman Amberg Preus family and visitors, all wearing hats, are playing croquet in their yard. One child is on a rocking horse and another child is by a...
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Samuel Barber Home

Date: 1873
Description: A man and two women are standing along a fence in the foreground, and another woman is standing on the porch. In the background is Samuel Barber's frame ho...
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Couple with Young Children

Date: 1870
Description: A man is standing on the far left with a baby in a baby buggy, a boy on the far right is sitting on a rocking horse on the lawn, and a woman holding baby i...
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Family in front of Fence

Date: 1872
Description: A family poses in front of a fence, including women with parasols, a man with a horse, a man standing on a fence and a woman and two children on the porch ...
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Family by Vine Covered House

Date: 1873
Description: A wooden fence with widely spaced pickets is in the foreground. Behind it is a family in the yard of a frame house that has vines covering its windows, nic...
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Family by Wooden Walkway

Date: 1877
Description: Family in front of picket fence and wood walkway, which encloses an upright and wing frame house with elaborate carpenter's lace and latticework on the por...
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Family with Young Children

Date: 1872
Description: A mother, father, four children and two babies in a yard with a frame house behind, in a heavily wooded area.
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Family Standing on Porch

Date: 1870
Description: A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background.
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Family on Chairs in Yard

Date: 1873
Description: Family (three men, three women), in yard with frame house, that has a wood bench and hanging plants on porch. There are vines along sides of front door, an...
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Family around House

Date: 1874
Description: Women standing throughout the yard, with a man standing on the far left on the porch of the house holding a shovel. The frame house has a porch on two side...
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Group with Horses near House

Date: 1873
Description: Family in yard with man on left on rig, man on right side with reaper and other farm implements. Four women are sitting in chairs in the center, and the wo...
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Woman holds Baby by House

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard, with a woman holding a baby. There is a girl with an apron-type dress with frame house behind that has nicely cut woodwork on porch. There ...
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Family at Board Fence

Date: 1869
Description: Family stands at board fence, with a horse and carriage on the road in front of a two-story frame house.
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Family sitting outside of Frame House

Date: 1873
Description: An upright and wing frame house with three doorways on porch, shuttered windows, and a stone foundation.
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Boy Holding Rabbit Near House

Date: 1870
Description: Boy on garden path holding bunny rabbit with family in front of frame house with shuttered windows and latticework trim above porch.

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