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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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Quammen Family Farm

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Description: View of the Quammen family farm with a man in the foreground standing in a field. Behind him and across the field is an upright and wing frame house with w...
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Farm with Poplars

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Description: Elevated view of a group of people standing in in a farmyard with a reaper-mower and horse-drawn vehicles. A small log building, haystacks and other farm b...
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Family and Farmstead

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Description: A family stands in a field with a farmstead behind them. The farmstead buildings include a hops drying shed with a large round chimney, small log structure...
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Harold Haroldsen Stugaard and Wife Berit Syverud's Farm

Date: 1876
Description: A field is in the foreground and further back is a log building, barn and house with people in the front yard. Mr. Harold Haroldsen Stugaard died in 1875 ...
Painting

Joe Barry's Farm, A Day's Journey to the South of Odanah

Date: 1858
Description: Beginning at Odanah just south of Lake Superior, Hölzlhuber and several fur trappers used an Indian trail to travel upstream through extensive wild forest....
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Getto Family

Date: 1927
Description: Getto family, seated left to right: Henry Getto, Harry Ketola, Maria Getto, Senia Getto Aho, Alma Getto, Ruth Howland, Pete Hovi, Oscar Getto, Herman Aho, ...
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Samuel Arms Family

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Description: The family of Samuel Arms poses outdoors in front of their house (the front door faces east). From left to right are: Samuel Arms, Mamie, Mary Roberts Arms...
Painting

Farm Painting

Date: 1885
Description: Painting of Paul Seifert farm showing rock formations in background and farm buildings nearby.
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Hyde's Farmhouse

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Description: Two men stand outside Hyde's farmhouse on Chena Slough.
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Farm Buildings and Frame House

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Description: View towards a frame house with a front porch. There are log farm buildings in the background on the left. In the left foreground is a wire fence with wood...
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People Posing in Front of Log Farmhouse

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Description: View across yard towards a group of eight people posing in front of a log house. On the left two young women are standing near an older woman, who is sitti...
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Brundage Family in Their Old Home

Date: 1935
Description: Portrait of the Brundage family in their old log cabin home. They are, left to right, standing: Robert (10), Walter, Thelma, Bruce (7), and seated: Victor ...
Photograph

Peasant Plowing with Horse

Date: 1918
Description: A peasant farmer plowing a field with the plow harnessed to a horse. The farmer's daughter is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and stands on the lef...
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80th Anniversary Founding of Swiss Colony

Date: 08 16 1925
Description: View of field full of parked automobiles at the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Swiss Colony at New Glarus. A log structure in...
Photograph

Village with Footbridge Built by U.S. Army Engineer Corps

Date: 1918
Description: View looking down low hill towards a narrow footbridge which crosses a small river to a village composed of wooden buildings with wooden fences. On the rig...
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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Village North of Pinega

Date: 1918
Description: View across what is probably a frozen river covered with snow towards a village surrounded by a fence north of the Pinega settlement in northern Russia.
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Two Room Log House on James Clarke Farm

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Description: View across bare yard towards a "very pretentious two room log house occupied by Mrs. Ida Eldridge who rents 50 acres. Two women and two young children are...
Postcard

Old Falls Village

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Description: Winter view of Umhoefer Log Cabin, built in 1845. Located at Pilgrim Road and County Line "Q." Text on back reads: "The Miller-Davidson House is a 19th Cen...

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