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Gesell Family Burlesque

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Description: The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi...
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Farmer Riding McCormick Binder outside Large Farm House

Date: 1900
Description: Farmer on a horse-drawn McCormick binder outside a large farmstead as men, boys, and a dog are looking on. One boy is on a bicycle.
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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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Farmyard with Implements

Date: 1878
Description: Family in farmyard with farm implements, including a grain seeder and a threshing machine. Men are standing on top of hay in a wagon. Farm buildings and a ...
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Family posed in Yard near Frame House

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in a yard around a table, with a boy holding his hat. Behind them is a substantial two-story bracket style frame house with a widow's wal...
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John Deitz Family

Date: 1906
Description: Casual family portrait of John Deitz and his wife and five children.
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Allen Adsit with Pitchfork near House

Date: 1873
Description: Allen Adsit stands in the left foreground with a pitch fork and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated to the right. On the left near the house are two grind...
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Family Posed on Elaborate Porch

Date: 1871
Description: Two women and a child pose on the porch of a Greek revival frame house. The porch appears to have been added later in a Victorian style, including elaborat...
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Addison and Sarah White's Home

Date: 1876
Description: Riley, Springdale Township, Dane Co. Four men and four women around a table in yard in front of two-story Greek Revival frame house with a Madison Mutual s...
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R. Daniel Rickelsen Family around Table

Date: 1877
Description: The R. Daniel Rickelsen family sitting around a table, including a small dog near the base of the table. One man is sitting and holding a cane. A lady on t...
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Family in front of House

Date: 1869
Description: A family sits around a table in a yard. One woman holds a stereoscope in her lap. Behind them is a frame house with shutters on some of the windows, and a ...
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Family Posed in Street near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is seated in chairs in the middle of a street in front of a frame house with shuttered windows. Adjoining this house is what may be a commercial s...
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William Bonner Family

Date: 1871
Description: A family, possibly that of William Bonner, is posing around a table in a yard. A man is sitting on the left holding a paper in one hand and a glass in the ...
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Studio Portrait of Two Brothers

Date: 1894
Description: Studio portrait of two young brothers, standing side by side. The man on the right has his hand on his brother's shoulder. They are both are wearing hats a...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
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DelliQuadri Family at Church Door

Date: 11 21 1955
Description: Fred and Velma DelliQuadri and their three daughters, Geri, Lyn, and Toni, enrollees in the Character Research Project, standing at the door of the First U...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
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Family on Porch

Date: 1900
Description: The Dodge family standing on the front porch of their house on East Montello Street. Frank Dodge lost his right leg in an accident while working in the gra...
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Family Gathered Outside of Tent

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Description: Three women, a man and several children pose outside of two large tents.
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Family in the Snow

Date: 1920
Description: Winter scene with a man, two boys, and two girls standing in the snow outside a two-story brick building, possibly in the town of Vaudreuil.

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