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| Date: | 1874 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | South Pinckney Street as photographed by Fuller from the Wisconsin State Capitol roof. In the center are several wooden structures dating from Madison's e... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family playing croquet in the yard of a side gable frame house with a porch. A birdcage is hanging from the porch and a young girl is clutching a doll. A... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family standing in a yard playing croquet, with a frame house and farm buildings behind them. An interesting rustic bench is on the right. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family in yard, with a woman holding a baby. There is a girl with an apron-type dress with frame house behind that has nicely cut woodwork on porch. There ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated family group with two children, in front of wing of frame house, with curtains in upstairs windows. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Family in line, seated in yard, with two-story frame house that has an addition and small second story windows in background. There is a huge woodpile behi... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated are Mrs. Guri Gaarden Thompson (mother), one of the Thompson twins, John Thompson (rear), Thosten Thompson (son) and Mr. Thosten Thompson (father). ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Greek Revival brick house with columned porch and stone foundation set in background of yard. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Theodore Parman and his wife Louise stand second and third from the left behind their home's fence. Their daughters can be seen in the windows and the... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Two women playing croquet in yard with large Victorian brick house in background that has brackets, two round windows at top and bay window at bottom; latt... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Twenty-one members of the Gullik K. Springen family, and one dog, in a farmyard with carriage, two-story stone house, wood barn and stone barn in the backg... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | The Michael Johnson Engesether family is seen from across a field standing at the side of a stone house with a frame addition. The house has a small front ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Onon Bjorn Dahle and family stand before their substantial two-story bracket style stone house. It has a hipped roof, shutters and a picket fence. Onon Bjo... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Sjur Starkson Reque home. From left to right, seated, are Martha Reque, Mari Reque Lee, Brita Reque Quale, Nels Lee and Ole Quale. Standing are Anna Ma... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Family seated around table in yard with stone house and frame addition in back; wood fence along side of house. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Reverend H.A. Preus and his family pose seated outdoors in front of the Spring Prairie parsonage. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Hatleberg family playing croquet in front of their stone upright and wing house, two miles east of DeForest near the present day intersection of Muelle... |
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