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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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First Farmers Alliance

Date: 1877
Description: The first Farmers Alliance — also known as the Southern Alliance — is shown in front of the cabin in which their first formal meeting was held in 1877 in P...
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William Dickinson House

Date: 1874
Description: An elegant carriage and a group of people are standing in front of a picket fence, with a brick house with shutters and hipped roof behind. More people are...
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Layton House

Date: 1880
Description: 2504 Forest Home Avenue. This hotel was situated on what was originally a plank road between Milwaukee and Muskego. It was designed after the Federal style...
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South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: Four men and a dog posing along the storefront of a South African McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership owned by C. North & Son.
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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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Railroad Workers at Boardinghouse

Date: 1898
Description: Group portrait of boarders, all railroad shop workers, sitting on the front porch at Mrs. Armour's boarding house. Left to right are: Bill Salsig, Roy Mart...
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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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Leinenkugel Brewery

Date: 1895
Description: Buildings and grounds of the Leinenkugel Brewery. There are beer wagons in the yard, chickens along a wooden walkway, and men on a horse-drawn wagon near a...
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Halvor and Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and their Home

Date: 1875
Description: Halvor Skavlem (middle?), Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and a friend standing near the fence in front of Skavlem's frame home, with an unidentified man reading on...
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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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Tonyawatha House

Date: 1879
Description: A group of men posing in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel, with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracke...
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Family Playing Croquet near Farmstead

Date: 1878
Description: A family is posed in farmstead front yard playing croquet and looking at a farmer on a horse-drawn sulky cultivator in cornfield.
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Reque Family and Home

Date: 1873
Description: Family and frame house of Lars David Reque. The family is posing in the yard which is surrounded by a picket fence, with a large frame house behind with ca...
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Men in Farmyard with Farm Implements

Date: 1873
Description: Four men stand with a scythe, hoe and pitchfork in the yard of a farmhouse. By the porch of the house are three women. The wood frame house has a stone fou...
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Family posed in front of Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: A husband and wife are posed with three sons, an infant in a baby carriage, and a Dalmatian dog, in front of a frame house with a stone foundation, shutter...
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Family of Herman Amberg Preus Playing Croquet

Date: 1873
Description: A family is gathered in a yard playing croquet. Nearby a child sits on a rocking horse and holds onto a small wagon. Behind that are some women and another...
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Family in Garden near House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is posed in their garden with a baby in its buggy and a woman holding her hat. The frame house behind them has a parapet roof, a porch with lattic...
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Group posed around Frame House

Date: 1873
Description: In the foreground is a fence, behind it a family posed in a yard. A child and dog are on the porch roof of the frame house behind the family.

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