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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Nels Dahl family posing in front of their home on Main Street in DeForest. From left to right they are: Emma, Ingeborg Ronjum Dahl, Ida, Bertha, Tina, ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Two women playing croquet in yard with large Victorian brick house in background that has brackets, two round windows at top and bay window at bottom; latt... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bechtel family seated in yard with croquet mallets in front of them with brick house that has soldier coursing at windows and fan window at third story. Da... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bechtel family posed sitting in yard with croquet mallets and balls in front. Brick house with third story fan window and frame addition in back with slan... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The home of the Reverend Carl Christian Aas (1843-1898), with the family posing around a table in front of a fence in the foreground. There is a rocking ho... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Family around table in yard. Four women, three men, and four children. The woman at far left is knitting, and on the far right is a dog. In the background ... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, with mother holding baby and doll. There is a doll carriage on the ground, and a long plank walkway leads to a brick house wit... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family in yard around table, with mother holding baby and doll. There is a doll carriage on the ground, and a long plank walkway leads to a brick house wit... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Four men in front of tent in the woods. There is a man with a hatchet next to a clothesline between two trees. This is a Centennial encampment on the shore... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of ornate carriage and animal cage with tents and people looking on at the annual Wisconsin State Fair held at Camp Randall. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Members of the Chicago Traveling Club are encamped on the shores of Lake Mendota and are posed with their tents, guns, cooking equipment, boat, paddles, sh... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Reverend H.A. Preus and his family pose seated outdoors in front of the Spring Prairie parsonage. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street. Family on lawn playing croquet with house in background. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It be... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of campers and tents at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
| Date: | 07 1875 |
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| Description: | Chicago Traveling Club encamped at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. An African American sits at the left foreground with pans ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A group, probably at Picnic Point on Lake Mendota in Madison, posed under the trees. Picnic baskets are behind them. Mrs. Bashford is the person in Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A one room Greek Revival schoolhouse with bell tower. A boy is in front, wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat and climbing a tree. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Mixed group, mostly children, having a picnic in the woods, perhaps connected with the dedication of the East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church. |
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