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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
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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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Family Farm House

Date: 1879
Description: Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o...
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Farm Implements in the Farmyard

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Description: Elevated view of group of people and farmhouse. There are three men with a horse-drawn self-rake reaper, and behind them are more people, several horses an...
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Family Playing Croquet near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield.
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Herman Amberg Preus and Caroline Keyser Preus House

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Description: Wood frame house with carpenter's lace and family seated and standing to side of house in background. A windmill and small barn with cupola is in the right...
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Behrend Veerhusen's Farm

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Description: Stone barn with scalloped edging with people in wagons and house in background, picket fencing; in sec. 26, SE1/4. Biography in Biographical Review of Dane...
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Farm along Rural Lane

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Description: A farm adjoining a rural lane. A group of people are in a wagon at the side of the lane on the left. Beyond the fence are people on a wagon and other peopl...
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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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Men in Farmyard with Farm Implements

Date: 1873
Description: Four men stand with a scythe, hoe and pitchfork in the yard of a farmhouse. By the porch of the house are three women. The wood frame house has a stone fou...
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Extended Family of Lars Davidson Reque in front Yard

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Description: View across bare ground towards a large extended family of 26 people who are sitting and standing along a fence in the front yard of a wood frame house; La...
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Ole Farner Family and their Home

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Description: The Ole Farner family is posing in their yard. Two men, a dog and a woman with an infant are sitting on the left, with a boy standing behind them, and two ...
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Ole Farner Family Posing in their Yard

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Description: The Ole Farner family is posing in their yard. Two men and a woman are sitting on the left, with a boy standing behind them, and three children sitting in ...
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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...
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Man and Family in Yard of Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: A man lies on the ground with a dog near the front door of his house. His wife and baby are posed on the steps of a side porch. The frame house has a stone...
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Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: The Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen (1825-1904), his wife Cathinka Doderlein Ottesen, their family and visitors are posing in a yard around a table set for cof...
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Family of Herman Amberg Preus Playing Croquet

Date: 1873
Description: A family is gathered in a yard playing croquet. Nearby a child sits on a rocking horse and holds onto a small wagon. Behind that are some women and another...
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Family Posed around Table near House

Date: 1878
Description: A family is in a yard around a table with books on it. One woman holds a fan, another sits in a rocking chair with a shawl on its back. A fence and open ga...

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