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People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
Description: People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ...
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Everetta and Cary Bass

Date: 1895
Description: Everetta Bass, the photographer's daughter, helping her brother Cary put on a silk top hat. She is holding a doll and they are standing outside near a fire...
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Children Playing on Seesaw

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Description: Two young girls play on a seesaw (teeter totter) in a yard near stacks of fuel wood.
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Little Grant School District #12 School Building

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Description: View down hill of a teacher standing in an open doorway, with students standing and sitting on the wooden landing of a clapboard one-room school building. ...
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Unidentified Men and Girl

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Description: Two unidentified men and a young girl posing outside what is possibly a one-room schoolhouse.
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Three Men and Two Young Girls with Sawhorse

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Description: Three men stand with two young girls near a sawhorse. One of the men holds a saw. A large building is visible in the background.
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Filming a Family Eating Lunch

Date: 08 1948
Description: A man films a family as they sit at a picnic table and eat lunch at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition.
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Gathering on Back Porch of Farm

Date: 1922
Description: The back porch and the nearby wood pile, on the John Esch farm. There are two men, two women and a dog on the porch.
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Woman Perched on Roof

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Description: A woman perches on the edge of a roof over a wood pile. Her hands and feet are crossed and she is wearing a dress and hat.
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Excelsior Public School

Date: 1909
Description: View across road of school children and a man and a woman standing in front of the two-story public school. There is a bell tower above the entrance. A num...
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Three Wooden Buildings

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Description: View across fields and fences of three wooden buildings in the country, probably a mill. A man stands in the wagon drawn by a team of horses in front of on...
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Farm Home of August Krueger

Date: 09 05 1895
Description: View across road of the log buildings and farm home of August Krueger. Two women and three men stand near the fence along the road. One of the men holds a ...
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Field of Potatoes on the Farm of Oswald Scheller

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: A promotional card depicting Oswald Scheller and his family on their farm in northern Wisconsin.

The caption below the image reads: "Field of potatoes on...

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Group of People Posing in front of House

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Description: Two women, two men, and two girls standing in front of a wooden house (probably the backyard), near a clothesline with drying wash. Two boys are standing o...
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Man and Woman with Horse-Drawn Buggy in front of House

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Description: Man and woman posing in front of a fence. They are standing near a wagon pulled by a team of two horses. In the background is a two-story frame house with ...
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People and a Buggy in Front of a House

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Description: A man, woman, and two children are posing sitting in a buggy pulled by a team of two horses. A man is standing near the corner of the two-story frame house...
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Family in front of Frame House

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Description: View across grassy field towards a group of people posing in front of two-story frame house with a porch. Three women, and a man holding a young child. are...
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Major McArdle

Date: 1918
Description: Major McArdle returning to a village from an inspection trip. He is riding in a horse-drawn wagon with a driver, and local Russians, women and children, ar...
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Girl with Colt and Puppies

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Description: View across yard toward a girl in frilly white dress posing in bright sunlight with her arm raised holding the bridle of a colt, standing near a barn. On t...

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