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| Date: | 1879 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Large family group, and dog in right foreground, around table that has large books on it. A little girl sitting on the grass in front of the table has a do... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family stands on the porch of small frame house with wing additions. A well is on the far left, and farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Seated are Mrs. Guri Gaarden Thompson (mother), one of the Thompson twins, John Thompson (rear), Thosten Thompson (son) and Mr. Thosten Thompson (father). ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Here Dahl used "The Old Oaken Bucket" motif — a man drinking water from a pail at a well in foreground with family sitting and standing at a table with cof... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family sitting in chairs in front of fence, with two men standing behind the fence near a well wearing top hats. A frame house with a porch is behind them. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Two people stand in front of the Ella Hoes Neville well and historic marker, with two insets with close-up views of its architecture. |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Cross in a field marking the area of "Marquette's well." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of an artesian well, located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since renamed Wacouta). Construction was com... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of artesian well, located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since renamed Wacouta). |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of artesian well, apparently not the same one that was located near the intersection of Wisconsin Street and South Minnesota Street (since rena... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a young couple romancing by a well as another young woman watches from behind. |
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| Description: | Group of girls passing by a frame house with a well in the yard. Two women and a man pose in the left doorway. |
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| Description: | A woman stands at the edge of an enclosed well holding a bucket. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | View from corner of storefronts. Horse-drawn vehicles and pedestrians are in the street. There is a water fountain with a cup in the foreground. |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to... |
| Date: | 03 23 1950 |
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| Description: | A large steel cylinder-shaped water reservoir stands above a drilled well with a tall construction crane behind it. The well under construction is Unit #9 ... |
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