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Burning Building and Volunteer Fire Fighters

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Description: Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av...
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Exterior View of Home of Johnson

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Description: View across yard towards the southwest corner of South 2nd and Johnson (Grove). Owned by Johnson. There is a man standing inside the fence, and a girl stan...
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Group of Children Wearing Ice Skates in front of Price House

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of five children posing standing on ice, with a large house in the background. The house is identified as the Price house. Three of ...
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Outdoor Portrait of Group of European American Children in Costume

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of eleven unidentified children in costume posing in a yard on the grass behind a wooden walkway. Location identified as the Krohn r...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Jim Kinley and Other People

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Description: European American group of four women and a man posing standing on a wooden walkway in front several homes. Location identified as German Hill, in the Cave...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European Americans

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of an unidentified group of people. Four women and one man are posing standing on a wooden walkway in a yard.
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two unidentified women posing standing. In the background are several wooden buildings. The women are wearing dark-colored skirts, ligh...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Woman; Marsh and Lochen Residences

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified woman posing standing with a bicycle in front of several wooden buildings. The street is identified as Marsh Street, an...
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Residence on the Corner of Main and Fourth Streets

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a European American family posing standing and sitting on the porch of a small wooden house. The house is identified as the resid...
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Scene on Pierce Street

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Description: View down wooden walkway towards a group of people walking. The houses on the opposite side of the street are identified, from right to left, as the reside...
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F. Keefe Residence; Third and Madison Streets; Side View

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Description: View from yard of a boy posing standing on the porch of a two-story wooden house with a stone foundation which appears to be newly built. The house is iden...
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Boy with a Rifle on North Fourth Street

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Description: View of a European American boy posing standing and shooting a rifle on the snow-covered ground in the yard in front of a house. The house on the left is i...
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W.T. Murray Residence; Main and Melrose Streets

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Description: View of a young girl playing in the leaves in the yard of a two-story wooden house. A man and woman and a dog stand watching in the background on the far l...
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Girl Next to Plank Sidewalk

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a small European American girl posing standing near a wooden walkway in a yard in front of several buildings.
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John Mills and Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a European American family. There is a man posing standing by a hammock in which a woman and infant are sitting. In the backgroun...
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Neighborhood Scene

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Description: Outdoor view across lawn toward a European American woman posing standing on the porch of a wooden house. A girl is posing sitting on a wagon behind a wood...
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Street Scene

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Description: View across rutted, unpaved road towards wooden buildings and a tall water spigot on the other side of the road. A young child is walking down the wooden s...
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Street Scene

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Description: View down snowy street towards a horse pulling a man in a sleigh. There is a man walking down the sidewalk on the right. Location identified as the interse...
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Children Playing

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Description: Outdoor view of four children playing in a yard.
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Parade Through a Neighborhood

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Description: View down unpaved road towards a band at the head of a parade coming down a town street.

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