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Playing Chess

Date: 1898
Description: Reverend Henry Faville and his son, Ted, are seated around a small table playing chess in their home.
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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
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Family in Yard by Picket Fence

Date: 1875
Description: Family in yard in front of picket fence, with a farm house and a building among trees in the background. The family is gathered around a table, and a young...
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Andrew Amundsen Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Andrew Amundsen family is sitting around a table covered in a white knit cloth. Some of them are holding books. Their frame house is in the background....
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Man Reading in Living Room

Date: 1912
Description: Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne.
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Man Reading in Rocking Chair

Date: 1923
Description: Mr. Lutfring sitting in a wicker rocking chair while reading a newspaper. The room is furnished with an upholstered divan, lamp with fringe shade, carpetin...
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Bailey Family Group

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Description: Four members of the Bailey family, two men and two women, stand and sit around a small table in front of a fireplace. There is a music stand below the wind...
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Man Sitting at Table

Date: 02 03 1912
Description: A man with a moustache dressed in a dark suit and necktie is sitting on a wooden chair next to a table covered with a light-colored tablecloth. The floor i...
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Wedding Day

Date: 09 10 1966
Description: Bride Catherine Bakieff Petersen and groom Peter Seipp Goltra, left, pose with their wedding party under the crystal chandelier in the music room at Black ...
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Music Room

Date: 1890
Description: An interior view of the music room of the George Brumder home at the corner of Wells and 10th Streets. The room has a high ceiling and is decorated in Vict...
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Three DeWitt Boys

Date: 1936
Description: From left to right: Peter DeWitt, baby Robert Dewitt, and Douglas DeWitt sitting on a couch. The two older boys are wearing lace-up leather work boots.

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