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Family Dressed in Sunday Best

Date: 1875
Description: A family dressed in their Sunday clothes are gathered around a table that has flowers on it. The frame house behind them has shutters.
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Family Seated around Table

Date: 1878
Description: A family dressed in their finest clothes sits around a table with glassware on it. The man on the left wears a top hat at a jaunty angle. Behind them is a ...
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Family Posed in front of Gothic Revival House

Date: 1875
Description: A very formal family is seated around a table ornamented with glassware. Men strike poses in the yard. Behind them is a large wood frame Victorian house wi...
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Family in Yard and Woman on Horseback

Date: 1869
Description: A family poses in a yard with one elegantly dressed young woman on horseback. The frame house has an unusually shaped attic story fan window. The porch is ...
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Family by Stone Gate

Date: 1879
Description: A well-dressed family of four is posed in front of a stone fence with a picket gate. Behind them is a Greek Revival frame house with shuttered windows.
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Bennett Family and House

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Description: The family of H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett, posing formally in and around a car parked in front of their house.
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Ethel Walker

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Description: Ethel Walker, friend of Mary Brandel, poses in the backyard with a house in the background. She is dressed for cold weather and wears a hat, scarf, and co...
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Dr. A.W. Jones

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Description: Dr. A.W. "Uncle Bill" (also known in Randolph as "Bill Doc") Jones sits on the porch steps wearing a vest with a watch fob.
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The Brandels and the Taylors

Date: 1923
Description: E.W. Brandel, Mrs. Brandel, and the Taylors pose in chairs in front of a building. The man on the right is smoking a cigar, and behind them are windows wit...
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Harold Smith and Max

Date: 1926
Description: Harold Smith, wearing a hat, coat, and gloves, sits on a porch step with Max the dog. He is holding a pipe in his right hand.
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School Group

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Description: Conservationist Sigurd Olson (front row, left) posing with his class, probably at Prentice, Wisconsin.
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The Loraine Hotel

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Description: Men and women stand on the sidewalk in front of the Loraine Hotel near a parked automobile. One of the men holds a pennant reading, "Ocean City Teachers We...
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Two Women and Young Girl on Porch of Frame House

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Description: View over fences towards two women and a young girl posing standing on the porch of a wooden frame house. The two women are wearing long dresses with lacy ...
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Oak Lodge

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Description: Exterior view of Oak Lodge near Lake Mendota, with a man and two women posing on the front porch. It was owned by Caroline Fitch, Ann Stewart, and Jessie V...
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Emma Schoelkopf in Front of a House on Jenifer Street

Date: 1916
Description: Emma Schoelkopf is posing in the yard in front of a house on Jenifer Street. She is wearing a matching skirt and fur-trimmed coat and hat. There is a rocki...
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Kayes Park House

Date: 1885
Description: Stereograph of the large hotel at Kayes Park on the south shore of Geneva Lake. There are two girls standing in the foreground, with well-dressed women in ...
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Fiftieth Anniversary

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Henry Bartholomay, Jr. and his wife, Clara Seipp Bartholomay pose at the corner of the screened porch at their summer home on the occasion of their fiftiet...
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Group at the Hotel

Date: 1905
Description: Two women and three girls posing in front of the Hotel on the Hill. Blanche Richter is seated at left and holds a cat on her lap. The woman standing next t...
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Jessie

Date: 1905
Description: Jessie Underwood, daughter of E.W. Underwood, posing on the wooden front steps of the family home. She is wearing a hat and a fancy dress with ruffled bodi...
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Walter Vail Johnston Family

Date: 1933
Description: Walter Vail Johnston, far left, and his wife June Crandall Johnston, second from left, posing with their six children in front of their large house on Dean...

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