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Hans Holtan Family

Date: 1879
Description: This is said to be the family of Hans Holtan (a.k.a. Austinson) posed in the yard before a frame house that has carpenter's lace on porch, two separate doo...
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H. Sveren Farm

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Description: H. Sveren farm with the family standing in the foreground and a dog, farm buildings and fences in the background. A line of trees is behind the farmhouse o...
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
Photograph

G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
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Well-Dressed Women in Field

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Description: Two well-dressed women with parasols standing in a field in the foreground. Behind them are groups of people in wagons, as well as livestock, and a farmste...
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Jerome Skaalen Family and Farm

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Description: The Skaalen family stands in the front yard of their farm house. To their right are men on a tobacco wagon. The 1985 address of this farm was 1773 Country ...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stand in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them is a w...
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Large Group near Farmyard and Windmill

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Description: A large group of men, women and children stands in front of an elaborate wood and stone fence. A horse and carriage stand at the left and behind them a win...
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b...
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i...
Painting

Rural Free Delivery

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Description: A woman waiting by her mailbox receives a Sears Roebuck catalog delivered by her mail carrier who drives a horse-drawn wagon. The farmhouse and barn are vi...
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Carriage and Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Men are posing around a horse-drawn grain binder while two women are looking on from a horse-drawn carriage. One of the men is holding a bicycle, and a far...
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Buggy Ride to the Circus

Date: 05 1899
Description: View of Hattie Braemer, Florentina Krueger, and Sarah Krueger on a horse-drawn buggy, ready to go to the circus.
Postcard

Group of People Posed at Farm

Date: 1910
Description: Photographic postcard view of a family posed on a hill in front of a farm, with farmhouse, outbuildings, and a windmill. The family is gathered on a hill i...
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Horse and Carriage Rides

Date: 1901
Description: View across pasture towards two horse-drawn carriages on the August Pautz farm. Two people are sitting in each carriage, and two women and a child are stan...
Photograph

August Pautz Farm

Date: 1901
Description: Members of the Pautz family lined up in front of their house. Two carriages with horses are flanking either side of the family. A windmill is situated alon...
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Ed and Martha Wendorf in Buggy

Date: 1902
Description: Ed Wendorf and his sister Martha riding in a buggy pulled by a team of horses along a dirt road near the Krueger farm.
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View of the Krueger Family on Their Farm

Date: 1900
Description: View of the Krueger family standing in a cleared field, with a view of their farm in the background. August Krueger is sitting with a dog in a wagon pulled...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder in Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: Right side view of a man using a horse-drawn binder. Another man is standing in the field next to two people sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. On the righ...
Historical Object

Paul Vanderbilt Pairing 63

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Description: You came to know that book by its covered distance,
well remembered by the measure
of the trudging barefoot mile

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