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Family in front of a Lodge

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Description: A family with skiing equipment stands in front of a lodge in winter. View features a large multi-story lodge with many windows and evergreen trees.
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Christmas Greetings

Date: 1926
Description: Holiday card with two parts. The main card is red paper with gold foliage printed on the outside. "Christmas Greetings" is printed on the bottom in black u...
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Yuletide Greetings

Date: 1927
Description: Holiday card with three carolers singing in front of a snow-covered house. One caroler holds a lantern and they are dressed in Old English clothing style. ...
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With Best Wishes

Date: 1932
Description: Holiday card with a silhouette of a couple and their three Scottie dogs walking in front of a big picture window with red drapes and a pine tree decorated ...
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Winter Street Scene

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Description: View down a snow-covered street during winter. A man stands on a snow bank outside of shops and other small businesses at right.
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Family with Pets and Dead Fox

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Description: A family poses outdoors in the snow in front of their house. The father proudly holds a dead fox. The mother and youngest child stand on the left, and the ...
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Four Boys in Costumes

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Description: Four boys dressed in Indian costumes sit in a row on the concrete steps to a large porch of a house. A woman wearing an apron is standing on the porch on t...
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Blockhouse in the Snow

Date: 1918
Description: An eight-man blockhouse fortification in the snow, with a built-up wall of logs surrounding it. Soldiers inside the fortification are looking out of some o...
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Dunham School Students Outdoors

Date: 1912
Description: The students of Dunham School pose outdoors with the school building in the background. Identified are (front, left to right) LaVerne Campbell, Mildred Pet...
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Convoy

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy street towards a group of people gathered outdoors. Horses with sleighs are parked in front of some of the buildings, which are of log cons...
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U.S. Army Machine Gunnery School

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a child standing near the United States Army machine gunnery school, which is surrounded by other buildings. The towers and onions...
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View of the City of Archangel

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of the Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking north. There are dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings, and a c...
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Lake Geneva Yacht Club

Date: 01 1927
Description: Two-story wood frame house sitting on a small rise on the shore of Geneva Lake. There are hoods over the windows and a single-story front porch with simple...
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Lake Geneva Yacht Club

Date: 01 1927
Description: A side and rear view of the Cook house overlooking Geneva Lake. The main structure is a two-story frame building with an exposed basement. There is a smal...
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Frank B. Fargo House

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the side and front of the Second Empire style, two and one-half story cream brick house on Mulberry Street. There is an onion domed tower on the ...
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Carriage

Date: 1890
Description: A team of two horses is harnessed to a highly polished carriage with a side lamp. The driver is holding a long whip and is wearing a top hat, winter coat a...
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Brumder Barn

Date: 1902
Description: A large barn with wooden vented cupola with a small onion dome. The description on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Big barn at Villa Henrietta that G...
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North Primary School

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "North Primary School." A two-story clapboard schoolhouse with a basement has students gathered on the steps to the entrance. The scho...
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Winter Scene

Date: 1908
Description: Text on front reads: "Winter Scene, Rochester, Wis." Snow covers a long, two-story brick building and dwellings in a small town. Snow is mounded up against...
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Lutheran Church

Date: 01 13 1916
Description: Text on front reads: "Lutheran Church, Seymour, Wis." The Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church was built in 1915 of brick in the Gothic Revival style. Ther...

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