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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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Farmhands and Cattle in a Farmyard

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Description: Group portrait over fence of two men, a woman, and a boy posing in a farmyard with cattle and a team of oxen. In the background are farm buildings and a ph...
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Men Planting Seedlings

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Description: Man and a boy posing standing and holding white pine seedlings in a field. Four men are crouching in a row planting the seedlings in a field. In the backgr...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Woman

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified woman posing standing and leaning against a narrow column of a wooden porch in front of a house. She is wearing a dark-...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Family; O'Brien Family

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of a family group posing standing in front of a wooden house and between two carriages drawn by horses. The group is identified as t...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of six unidentified women and a girl posing sitting and standing in a yard.
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Woman at a Brick House

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Description: View across field towards a European American woman posing sitting on the porch of a two-story brick house. A ladder is leaning against the porch roof.
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Man with Carpentery Tools

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing and holding wood-working tools on a shaded patch of ground in a field. Displayed around him is a trunk with more ...
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Sleigh on a Snowy Road

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Description: View from side of road towards a man posing sitting in a sleigh pulled by a single horse near the side of a snow-covered road.
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Wrecked Car in a Ditch

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Description: View looking uphill towards a wrecked automobile resting in a ditch off the road. Probably due to an accident. People are standing near the top of the hill...
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Men Fishing off a Bridge

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Description: View from bridge towards three men standing on the bridge and fishing. The road in the background rises up a small hill, and a building is in the distance.
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Woman on a Horse

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Description: Exterior portrait of a woman posing sitting side-saddle on a horse in a field. There are roads in the background, and a building in the distance on the rig...
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Man with a Team of Horses

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Description: A man standing outdoors in a field behind two horses holding the reins. The horses are wearing fly nets and blinders.
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Binder and Threshing

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Description: View across field towards three men operating a binder and threshing machinery pulled by a team of four horses.
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Cow by a Fence

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Description: A cow standing by a wooden fence, with a field and wooden building in the background.
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Building a Barn

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Description: View across field towards two men posing standing on the frame of a barn under construction next to a large haystack.
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Run-Down Farm Buildings

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Description: Elevated view down hill towards a wooden building in the distance. There are haystacks next to the building. There is a forested hill in the background.
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A Sow and Her Litter in a Pig Pen

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Description: View across fence towards a pigpen, towards a sow and piglets. In the background are trees and a hill in the distance.
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Threshing Scene

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Description: View towards a group of men and women posing standing upon and atop a thresher pulled by a team of four horses wearing fly nets. One man is sitting on a ho...
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Large Barn

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Description: View towards a large wooden barn. A sign on the cupola on top of the roof reads: "L.W. Drew 1908." There is a lightning rod on the top of the cupola, and f...

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