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A Quiet Evening at Home

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Description: Amos Elliot, pioneer stage coach driver, enjoying a quiet evening at home with his second wife, and her daughter (center), Stella Hart.
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Medical Students Horseplay

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Description: A medical student is playing with electric shock equipment as Dr. Eugene Krohn, sitting at his desk with his feet up, is looking on. This is a carefully po...
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Seated Couple at Home

Date: 1899
Description: Portrait of an elderly couple seated in their home. The woman is holding a bouquet of flowers. The man is seated slightly behind her, with his right arm o...
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Woman and Baby

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Description: A woman in a light top and dark skirt tending to a baby propped on a chair wearing a long white gown. A parlor stove is on the right, and tapestries are ha...
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By the Piano

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Description: Two women and a man posing by a piano.
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Double Image of Family and Two Boys

Date: 1898
Description: Two exposures of interior portraits. Left is a seated woman holding on to smaller boy both looking left, with seated man and standing older boy facing forw...
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Group Posing by Organ

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing around an organ. A young woman in a white dress is sitting at the organ, facing left, with an older man behind her on the right. On ...
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two women, two children, and a man sitting in a parlor showing a portrait of a man and a doorway hanging with cords.
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Two Children Posing in Parlor

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Description: Two children posing in a parlor, probably Dudley and Marguerite Osborn inside the Spaulding House.
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Woman and Children in Parlor

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Description: Woman, probably Julia Spaulding Osborn, and two children, probably Dudley and Marguerite (later Clausen) Osborn, posing in the parlor inside the Spaulding ...
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Group at Boarding House

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Description: Six women and a man gathered at a parlor table at a boarding house. The man is probably Amos Elliott, and the women around the table are teachers studying ...
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two men and two women reading in a parlor, possibly J.R. Ogden and wife, and Grace Ogden and Carl (?).
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Three People Reading

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Description: Two women and an elderly man reading in a room.
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Group Sitting in Parlor

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Description: Two women and two men, both young and elderly, reading and conversing in a parlor, probably Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Ogden, and their son and daughter, Carl and G...
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Woman Posing near Piano

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Description: Woman posing next to a piano, probably Mrs. Merlin Hull, formerly Jessie Matchette.
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Group of People in Parlor

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Description: Two women, a man, and a dog sit in a parlor.
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Man with Two Children

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Description: Man sits in a rocking chair holding a baby, while a child sits on a stool next to him. The man is possibly John H. Mills, holding Dudley Mills, and the chi...
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Man Sitting in Rocking Chair

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Description: Man seated in a rocking chair reading with deer head mount reflected in mirror.
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Large Group in front of Mirror

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Description: Large group of seven women and three men, all in evening dress, conversing in a parlor in front of a large mirror. Probably the Spaulding house and some Sp...
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Christmas Tree

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Description: Child with a Christmas tree and presents in a house.

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