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Family Seated in Yard

Date: 1877
Description: Family seated in yard of stone house, which has returned cornice characteristic of the Greek Revival style. There is a frame wing in the back.
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Women on Horses

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ...
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Children Holding Hands

Date: 1869
Description: Portrait of two unidentified children holding hands while posing on homemade fancy chairs. The girl is dressed in a hand-me-down dress cut from a heavy woo...
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Family around Table

Date: 1876
Description: A family of twelve is grouped outdoors around a table. Behind them is a picket fence and a frame house, with latticework and carpenter's lace decorating it...
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Halle Steensland with Wife and Children

Date: 1876
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children at the family home, later located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard, Village of Maple Bluff. (Th...
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Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family and Visitors

Date: 1877
Description: "Professor R.B. Anderson, his Family & Visitors." Seated outdoors left to right around a table are: Mrs. R.B. Anderson, H. Herlofson, Professor Rasmus B. A...
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Family around Small Table

Date: 1872
Description: A family of eight around a small table set for coffee. Behind them is an upright and wing frame house with two small windows above the porch roof.
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Extended Family of Aslak Olsen Lie

Date: 08 29 1876
Description: The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o...
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Family under the Trees

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Description: The Newhouse family sits around a table under trees with a book, goblets, a vase of flowers, a pitcher, a stereoscope and a cloth on the table in front of ...
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Family Posed in Yard

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Description: A man with an accordion, another man with a clay pipe, and three women sit around a table that has a knit cloth, a vase, a book, plants and fruit on it. An...
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Family in the Yard

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Description: A family sits in the yard in front of their upright wing frame house. The house has cut work on the porch, small windows above the porch and a stone founda...
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Andrew Amundsen Family

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Description: The Andrew Amundsen family is posed around a table adorned with a knit cloth. Andrew and his wife, Sarah, are in rocking chairs with cloths over the backs....
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Family and their Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large doll l...
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Interior of a Church

Date: 08 30 1876
Description: Interior view of Blue Mounds Church. Built in 1868, the church was originally named the Norsk Evangelisk Kirke.
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Outdoor Dinner Party

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Description: View down table of people at a large, outdoor dinner party. They are dining near the Blue Mound Church.
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Outdoor Family Portrait

Date: 1918
Description: A family poses for a portrait outdoors in front of their house. The eight individuals gather around a table on their front lawn for the photograph. Caption...
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Family Posing in Yard

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Description: Stereograph of unidentified family posing around two tables in a yard. Includes mother, father, and seven children. In the background is a large, three-sto...
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Ole Bull's Residence

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of a room in Ole Bull's Madison residence, where he lived after marrying Sara Chapman Thorp in 1870. The room is furnished with chairs, a table...
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Outdoor Entertainment

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Description: Stereograph of Reverend I.A. Ottesen with his family and visitors sharing outdoor refreshments. On the front table are two stereograph viewers and stereogr...
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Halle Steensland and Family

Date: 1875
Description: Detail from original of part of the family and the house. Original caption reads: "Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left...

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