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Farm Family

Date: 1898
Description: A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the...
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Pioneer Home of Nels Wickstrom

Date: 1891
Description: This is a family photograph of Nels Wickstrom with his wife Anna (born Anna Stoel) and their children in front of their log home. The oldest child, wearing...
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Chippewa Family

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Description: A Native American (Ojibwa) family photographed on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul...
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Indians in front of Cabin

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Description: Three Indians of North America, two women and one boy, standing in front of a log cabin.
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Samuel Arms Family

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Description: The family of Samuel Arms poses outdoors in front of their house (the front door faces east). From left to right are: Samuel Arms, Mamie, Mary Roberts Arms...
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Moore & Galloway Lumber Company Camp and Workers

Date: 1891
Description: Lumber company workers pose in front of buildings at the Moore & Galloway Lumber Company camp, about a quarter of a mile east of Pike Lake. The man in a wh...
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Men Playing Cards in Shanty

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Description: A large group of men, probably logging workers, are shown playing cards in a sleeping shanty.
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Mountain Home

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Description: Group portrait of a man, a woman and seven children standing in front of a log cabin. The caption reads: "A Typical Mountain Home in Kentucky."
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Auburndale Camp

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Description: Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr...
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Potawatomi Women

Date: 1915
Description: Outdoor portrait of three women: (left to right) Martha Philemon of Bark River, Michigan; Mrs. Eve K. Sahpenais, wife of John Yello Bird; and Sarah Sahpena...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Boys Camping Scrapbook: Features

Date: 1942
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with highlights of the boys summer camp at Camp America Williams: "backwards" day, with a line of boys dr...
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Log Cabin on Rock Island

Date: 1914
Description: Chester Thordarson (second from left) and his Chicago guests pose in front of a log cabin, which was located at the southeast corner of Rock Island.
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Neighborhood House Boys Club with Log Cabin

Date: 1926
Description: Seven boys standing outdoors around a table with a model of a log cabin and its surroundings on it. A building with narrow siding is in the background.
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Special Train Engine 1

Date: 1905
Description: A group of women and children and one man pose standing on the railroad tracks behind a saddle back train. On the low hill behind them is a log building, a...
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...
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The First House in Kennedy

Date: 1908
Description: Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy.
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Lumber Camp Group

Date: 1881
Description: Archie Young and crew at Yellow River camp.
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"Home Guard"

Date: 08 1921
Description: Three men posing standing in front of a log house belonging to the Getto family, all holding guns. A dog is sitting on the ground between two of the men. T...
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The Getto Family

Date: 1927
Description: Members of the Getto family posing in front of a log house surrounded by flowering trees. The three people sitting in the front row are, left to right: Mar...
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The Getto Family

Date: 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of five members of the Getto family posing among trees. Left to right: Fred Getto, Henry Getto, Alma Getto, Oscar Getto, and Maria G...

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