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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...
Photograph

Parlor Interior of Herman Amberg Preus's Parsonage

Date: 1871
Description: View of a parlor interior (probably that of Herman Amberg Preus's parsonage) with a bay window and draperies, a statue, plants, an ornate clock on a table ...
Photograph

Lower Entrance Hall at 50 East Huron Street

Date: 01 1929
Description: Front entrance hall at Cyrus McCormick, Jr.'s residence at 50 East Huron Street, with marble stairs and Cael stone walls. The view is from the ground floor...
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The Spalding Inn

Date: 1918
Description: Interior of the Spalding Inn, furnished with chairs and end tables arranged around a fireplace with a stone mantle. Recessed bookshelves stand on either s...
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Martin K. Dahl House

Date: 1885
Description: Martin K. Dahl, far left, sits with three women around a table which has been set in front of an iron fence which encloses a manicured yard. Two of the wom...
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Album Page with Violets

Date: 1901
Description: An album page decorated with hand-painted yellow violets features interior and exterior photographic views of the Frank B. Fargo house. At top left, a phot...
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Floral Tributes

Date: 04 1924
Description: Multiple bouquets and other flower arrangements fill the entry hall of the George and Henriette Brumder mansion at the corner of Grand (later Wisconsin) Av...

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