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| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is posed in a yard around a table, with a boy holding his hat. Behind them is a substantial two-story bracket style frame house with a widow's wal... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | On the left, Jakob Ottesen is holding a long-stemmed pipe, and behind him a ladder is leaning against a tree. At his feet, a large dog is stretched out. Th... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around a table loaded with books and potted plants. Children sit on soap boxes in front, including a girl with a doll. The frame house... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered in a yard around a table with a child on a rocking horse. The frame house behind them has a railing on its porch roof and latticework.... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family poses in a yard around a table. The grandmother appears to have an embroidery hoop in her lap. In the background on the right is a grindstone. Fur... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A young boy, two men and four women are seated in a row the yard of a frame house with latticework on the porch foundations, brick steps on the side, small... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around a table, with wood fence and frame house behind; one lady has a stereoscope in her lap. The house has an angular small addition with ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | The Van Norman family seated outdoors in front of, and standing behind a fence with their frame L-shaped house behind. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family in yard in front of picket fence, with a farm house and a building among trees in the background. The family is gathered around a table, and a young... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Extended family group of twenty-two people, some in work clothes, some elegantly dressed, stand in a yard and on the porch steps of an upright and wing fra... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two women and three children standing in the yard of cube-shaped house with porch and hipped roof with strangely placed windows. The woman on the right en... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Six people playing croquet in front of picket fence; frame house with shutters and latticework on porch in background. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Halle Steensland home, an impressive two-story brick house in Maple Bluff, with five family members posed along the front porches. It is possible this ... |
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