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Family of Seven in front of House

Date: 1878
Description: A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t...
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Family in Yard with Music Box

Date: 1872
Description: A family sits around a table on which is a wooden box with a key lock and a hinged lid, possibly with a mirror inside the lid. (A jewelry box? a music box?...
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Ashburn Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by...
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Family having Coffee outside House

Date: 1874
Description: A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi...
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Family Drinking Coffee

Date: 1879
Description: Family seated in yard around set table drinking coffee. Behind them is an upright and wing stone house with a frame addition and latticework and board fenc...
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Family Seated Around Table

Date: 1871
Description: Family seated around table in yard with stone house and frame addition in back; wood fence along side of house.
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Logging Camp Housing

Date: 1912
Description: A woman stands in the doorway of the first in a line of houses at an International Harvester logging camp or sawmill.
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Carl A. Anderson House

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: View of the living room of the Carl A. Anderson home on East McKinley Street. A portrait of the Anderson's daughter, Mrs. Owen Klongland, hangs above the s...
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Ruth B. Glassow Home

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Ruth B. Glassow, a professor of physical education for women at the University of Wisconsin, stacks wood in the outdoor fireplace that she built by herself...
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Homes for Workers at Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A long building containing workers quarters at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The homes all share a long, covered porch. The lawns ar...
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Colonial Living Room

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Description: View of a living room in a colonial style home. Room features a fireplace, mantle with clock, cooking implements, candlesticks, a spinning wheel, tables an...
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Front Yard Landscaping of House

Date: 1928
Description: Front yard landscaping of the residential home of A.R. Matthews, master farmer.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 633-639

Date: 
Description: Rooms remembered for what they led to
What they shut out and how they silent sang
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The Twins Sitting by the Front Porch

Date: 1908
Description: Edgar and Jennie Krueger are sitting together in a wicker chair placed in front of a porch. An end table is sitting next to them with a potted plant placed...
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Sitting in the Living Room

Date: 1901
Description: Indoor flash portrait of Johanna and William Krueger sitting in their living room reading books. Various calendars, figurines, and portraits are hanging on...

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