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American Farm Yard In Winter

Date: 1866
Description: Stereograph of woman, man and child outdoors on a farm with snow on the ground. The woman is wearing bloomers and is holding a bucket in the process of doi...
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Family Camping Trip

Date: 09 06 1988
Description: Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park.
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Camping with an International Travelall

Date: 1971
Description: Color advertising photograph of a family singing by a campfire near a Travelall 1010 truck and a Mallard camper. A man is in the foreground chopping wood f...
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G. Thompson Family and Domestic Machines

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Description: The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn...
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Family and their Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family is sitting around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large ...
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G. Thompson Family and Domestic Machines

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Description: The G. Thompson family poses in front of their wooden house. One woman sits at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another works at a knitting machin...
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Family and their Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family sits around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large doll l...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Migrant Cherry Pickers

Date: 1963
Description: Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,...
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Woman Doing Laundry in Alabama

Date: 04 29 1935
Description: A woman outdoors next to a house standing over a large, black pot, possibly doing laundry. Four children are playing around the woman near the entrance.
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Woman with Children in Barnyard

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Description: A portrait of a woman in a straw hat holding a horse in a barnyard and carrying hay in her left hand. There is an infant on the ground to her left, and a b...
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Family Camping

Date: 1925
Description: A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire.
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Wiese — Bucket

Date: 2004
Description: This bucket, located on the Eugene and Mary Wiese property, was once used by Baker Canning Co. It was used to lower peas and corn into a cooker.
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Spiegel Family Butchering Chickens

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Description: Six men of the Spiegel family stand outdoors around a long wooden table butchering chickens. The table is covered with large steel pots and pieces of meat....
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota.
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Wooden Bench

Date: 05 1982
Description: "Ist das nicht ein schnitzel bank? Ja das ist ein schnitzel bank. This bench made by Aug. Beck (1951-1910) used to hold wood so it can be whittled with a d...
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Picking Cherries

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: The photographer's wife, Clothilde, center, and two of his daughters, on the right, pick cherries with others in the family's orchard. They have small pail...
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Family Portrait on Porch

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Description: Group portrait of a family posed on a porch. The three women in the back hold a large enamel bowl, a mixing bowl and spoon, and a grinder or sifter. In fro...
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People Posing in Front of Log Farmhouse

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Description: View across yard towards a group of eight people posing in front of a log house. On the left two young women are standing near an older woman, who is sitti...
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Chief Ma-ko-day and Family

Date: 07 1916
Description: St. Croix Ojibwa Chief Ma-Ko-day (Chief Peter Bearheart) and his wife, grandson, and another unidentified person in front of their birch wigwam located in ...

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