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Thompson House

Date: 1873
Description: The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl ...
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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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Family Relaxing in the Yard

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Description: A family in their best clothes sitting around a table in front of their frame house.
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Andrew Amundsen Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Andrew Amundsen family is posing 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 in front of Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family is sitting around a table with a cloth, vases and other objects on it. The man on the left is wearing a top hat, and a flower in his lapel. The tw...
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Carriage and Buggy on Rural Road

Date: 1875
Description: Elevated view of a man driving a horse-drawn wagon along a rural lane with a man walking in front on the left. In the background is a field, fences, farmho...
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Family on Porch of Wing Framed House

Date: 1875
Description: A family stands on the porch of an upright and wing frame house that has small second story front windows and a stone foundation.
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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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William McFarland Family Pose in Yard

Date: 1880
Description: The William McFarland family is gathered around a table covered with books, pine cones, glassware and flowers in front of their Exchange Street house in Mc...
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Family with Girls

Date: 1871
Description: Outdoor family portrait with most of the girls dressed in the same fabric with vertical stripes. They are posed before a brick house.
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Family in Yard around Table

Date: 1878
Description: Family in yard around table, and a man standing with tool on the right. Behind the group is a Greek Revival house that has a sewing machine on the porch. T...
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Family of Fourteen

Date: 1871
Description: A family of fourteen in yard outside upright and wing frame house on stone foundation, with board fencing in the foreground.
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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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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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Rev. N. Brandt and Family

Date: 07 18 1876
Description: "Rev. N. Brandt and family, Decorah, Iowa" from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Nils Olsen Brandt was born in Valdres Norway in 1824 and die...
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Hansen Home

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of the residence of Casper Hansen, built in 1858. The home has a white picket fence, and a group of people are posing behind the fen...
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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 in front of Home

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Description: A family sits in a yard around a table with a cloth, vases and other objects on it. The man on the left is wearing a top hat and a flower in his lapel. The...
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Everetta and Cary Bass

Date: 1898
Description: Everetta and Cary Bass on sleigh in front of the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street.
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Cary Bass Posing with Hoop

Date: 1900
Description: Cary Bass standing beside the Bass family home at 131 East Montello Street. He is holding a hoop.

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