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Family Posed on Elaborate Porch

Date: 1871
Description: Two women and a child pose on the porch of a Greek revival frame house. The porch appears to have been added later in a Victorian style, including elaborat...
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People in front of Double House Porch

Date: 1876
Description: Double house with people on its front porch.
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Reverend Fjeld and Family near House

Date: 1877
Description: The family of the Reverend John N. Fjeld (1818-1888) sits at a table in front of their wood frame house near the Vermont Lutheran Church. His wife Gunhild,...
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Hillyer Family on Front Porch

Date: 1875
Description: The Edwin and Angeline Coe Hillyer family is grouped at the corner of a large Greek Revival house with ornamental railing work on its porch roof. A man is ...
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Group Posed outside G. Klove House

Date: 1876
Description: Six children and eight adults stand in front of the G. Klove house, with a picket fence and small front porch.
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People Posed in front of G. Bashford Home

Date: 1878
Description: Two women and a man posed in the garden path of an L-shaped Greek Revival frame house. The front and back doors are open, revealing a breezeway straight th...
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Family by Farmhouse and Barn

Date: 1874
Description: A family stands in the yard of a large frame bracket style house that has carpenter's lace, trim above windows, shutters, latticework at porch and a stone ...
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Family Reading by Picket Fence and House

Date: 1877
Description: A family is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence. Three of the adults are holding books, one man is holding a long pipe and a girl is holding ...
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Herman Amberg Preus and Wife with Visitors

Date: 1876
Description: Herman Amberg Preus, his wife Caroline Keyser Preus and their visitors are seated in a large semicircle with baby in carriage in center; frame house with c...
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Family Grouped around Table by House

Date: 1879
Description: A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin...
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Family on Garden Path by House

Date: 1875
Description: A family is seated around a table in the middle of a garden path, and a man stands on the porch of the frame house behind them. The house has carpenter's l...
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Family Posed in Yard Near House

Date: 1876
Description: A family is posed around a table on which are many thick books and a stereoscope. Most of the men, especially the twin boys, have assumed heroic postures. ...
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Halver and Gunil Skavlem Posed in Yard

Date: 1875
Description: Two men, one of whom is Halver Skavlem, and a woman, Gunil Skavlem, are posed in a yard. One man reads the "Western Rural", a newspaper dated August 14, 18...
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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Group on Lawn and Porch of House

Date: 1872
Description: A family is in the yard around a table. A girl holds her doll in her lap. Behind them are two people standing in the yard, and more people on the porch of ...
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Group Posed in front of Double Bracket House

Date: 1878
Description: Men stand in the yard, and a woman stands on the porch of a frame house with double brackets, double front doors with screen doors and a double walkway lea...
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Family with Carriage in Yard

Date: 1876
Description: A family stands around a carriage in the yard of a two-story frame house with bay window and multiple additions. Vines grow on the side of the front porch ...
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Group with Horses Pose near House

Date: 1869
Description: On the left a woman sits side saddle on a horse, and on the right two men are on a wagon hitched to two horses. Between them are a group of men in front of...
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Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
Description: This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth...
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Family Posed around Table near House

Date: 1878
Description: A family is in a yard around a table with books on it. One woman holds a fan, another sits in a rocking chair with a shawl on its back. A fence and open ga...

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