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Michael Baltus Family in Front of New Home

Date: 1895
Description: Michael Baltus family posing in front of their log cabin two miles east of Auburndale Station, Wood County, with a new frame house under construction nearb...
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Family Group in Front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1890
Description: Man and woman posing sitting, each holding a child in their lap, and a young man, girl, and a boy holding a toy horn, are posing standing. The group is pos...
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Barn Raising

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Description: Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin...
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Family in Carriages with Barn

Date: 1878
Description: Barnyard, with what appears to be a pigyard littered with corncobs. It is enclosed with a solid board fence and has slop troughs made from hollowed logs. A...
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Family of Seven near Modest House

Date: 1873
Description: A family of seven is posed around a table in the yard of a very modest house with a latticework porch. The men wear hats and a woman holds a baby. The hous...
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Couple with Young Children

Date: 1870
Description: A man is standing on the far left with a baby in a baby buggy, a boy on the far right is sitting on a rocking horse on the lawn, and a woman holding baby i...
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Woman holds Baby by House

Date: 1875
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 ...
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Family Posing in Yard

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Description: A family of five posing with their dog in the yard in front of their house. On the left is an older man sitting in a chair with a child in his lap, and in ...
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Two Women and Baby in Field

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Description: Two women playing with a baby while reclining on a blanket in a farm field with two carriages in the background.
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Family in Front Yard

Date: 1900
Description: The Bass farmhouse, originally owned by the photographer's father, Isaac Bass. Pictured are the photographer's mother, Lorinda Bass, brother Frank Bass hol...
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Woman in Swing Holding a Baby

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Description: A woman sits on a homemade swing holding a baby. In the background,two men stand and watch another child.
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Richard Quinney's Wheelbarrow Ride

Date: 1935
Description: Baby Richard Quinney rides on a full wheelbarrow pushed by his father, Floyd Quinney, across the farmyard.
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Asa Bennett Family

Date: 1903
Description: Asa Curtis Bennett family holding cranberry rakes and other manual farm implements. The family is gathered around an owl standing on the ground in front of...
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Group of People in the Yard in Front of House

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Description: In the foreground a man and woman are posing sitting. They are each holding a young child. Behind them posing standing are two women, two men, and a boy. T...
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Group of People Posing in Front of House

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Description: Group portrait of a man, four women, an infant, three young girls, and a boy in a yard with chickens and cats. In the background on the right is a photogra...
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Group in Front of Log Buildings

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Description: Group posing in yard with log buildings in the background. In the center a woman is sitting, and a young girl and small boy are standing next to her. In th...
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Man Holding Baby on Horse

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Description: Man holding a baby sitting on a saddled horse.
Print

Minneapolis Harvester Works Advertising Cards

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Description: Front and back of three advertising cards with color illustrations of a woman named "Minnie" and the same man in three different scenes. The front of the l...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog Spread

Date: 1902
Description: Inside 2-page spread with a color illustration of a man in a field on a Milwaukee harvesting machine pulled by a team of two horses. A woman is standing ne...
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Woman and Child; Buggy and Wagon

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a woman posing sitting and holding a child on a blanket in a field in front of two wagons, wooden buildings and a windmill.

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