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Family Posed near Frame House

Date: 1874
Description: A family poses in front of the picket fence before their frame house. Two little girls hold dolls in their laps. A dog sits on the grass nearby. Behind the...
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Seated Family outside of Home

Date: 1878
Description: Seated family group with two children, in front of wing of frame house, with curtains in upstairs windows.
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John Theodore Parman and Family

Date: 1873
Description: John Theodore Parman and his wife Louise stand second and third from the left behind their home's fence. Their daughters can be seen in the windows and the...
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Nichols House

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Description: Exterior view of Nichols House with a group of people on and around the porch.
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Family Posed in front of House

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Description: Man and woman, with umbrella, posing with a girl and baby in a wicker baby carriage in front of a frame house, number 419.
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Group Posed in front of House

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Description: Three women, four men (one seated), a boy, and a girl posing in front of a house.
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Woman and Child in Hammock

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Description: Woman and child sitting in a hammock. A woman and man stand behind them in the yard of a house.
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Woman with Four Children

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Description: Woman sitting with three girls and one boy in a room, probably a farm family.
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Group Holding American Flags

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Description: Two small girls holding American flags posed standing on the side of a building, while another girl looks outside from the window. To their side stands a w...
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Nichols House

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Description: Group of people posed on and around porch of the Nichols House.
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Family in front of Frame House

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Description: Three boys sitting on a wooden fence near a gate where a women and man are standing next to a baby carriage with a seated infant, in front of a frame house...
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Family in front of Small House

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Description: A portrait of a family of five, husband, wife, two daughters and an infant, standing by a fence in front of a small house. Laundry is hanging on a clothesl...
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John Dietz Cabin

Date: 12 1910
Description: Cabin of John Deitz. Three persons shown are not members of the Dietz family. John Deitz was known for the Cameron Dam incident in which Deitz and a Saw...
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The Home of the Chippewa

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Description: Chippewa Indians are seated around a dome-shaped dwelling on a reservation.
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Edwards Tower Cottage

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Description: A man and four children stand in front of Edwards Tower Cottage. The cottage is built in the style of a lighthouse.
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Large Group Standing Near Home

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Description: A large group of adults and children pose near a home in a company town of Consolidated Coal Company. On the right side of the home vines are growing on a ...
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Group in Decorated International Auto Wagon

Date: 1914
Description: Man in driver's seat, with women and several small children (some or all possibly family?) in an International auto wagon parked near a curb on a residenti...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 28 1940
Description: Paul Johnson (left) and James Borden (right) racing down Gorham Street at Madison's (Wisconsin) 1940 soap box derby. They have just left the starting ramp....
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Old Stone House

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Description: View over fence of a family posing on the porch of a stone house. Text on photograph says: "Old Stone House Erected About 1800 for an Indian School."
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Group Portrait in front of House

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Description: Group of men, women, and children posed standing along the side of a house. Second man standing from the left is probably Isaiah Landers, the third standin...

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