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Amund and Siri Rustebakke and Women with Spinning Wheels

Date: 1873
Description: Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w...
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Reverend A. Jacobsen and Family

Date: 1877
Description: Stereograph of Rev. A. Jacobson, family and visitors, Perry, Wis." from Dahl's 1877 "Catalogue of Stereoscopic Views." Jacobson (1836-1910) immigrated to t...
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William Dickinson House

Date: 1874
Description: An elegant carriage and a group of people are standing in front of a picket fence, with a brick house with shutters and hipped roof behind. More people are...
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Skavlem Family and Frame House

Date: 1875
Description: Family posing outdoors around a table in front of a frame house. There are two men with newspapers, girls with watermelon, and a woman on the porch of the ...
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Thompson House

Date: 1873
Description: The William Thompson family on the porch roof of their substantial brick bracket style house, with shutters, and with latticework at its foundation. A girl...
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Farm with Poplars

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Description: Elevated view of a group of people standing in in a farmyard with a reaper-mower and horse-drawn vehicles. A small log building, haystacks and other farm b...
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Family Portrait

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Description: A family is sitting around a table in the yard. Other family members in hats are in the background, standing in front of a frame house with a bay window an...
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Family Relaxing in the Yard

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Description: A family in their best clothes sitting around a table in front of their frame house.
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Homestead and Family

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Description: A family sitting in the farmyard around a table with a simple cloth, books and a vase of flowers. A frame house with three chimneys and shuttered windows i...
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Family in the Yard

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Description: A family posing around a table covered with books and a simple cloth in front of a two-story bracket-style frame house with a wrap-around porch.
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Halvor and Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and their Home

Date: 1875
Description: Halvor Skavlem (middle?), Gunil Olmstead Skavlem and a friend standing near the fence in front of Skavlem's frame home, with an unidentified man reading on...
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Family under the Trees

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Description: The Newhouse family sitting around a table under trees with a book, goblets, a vase of flowers, a pitcher, a stereoscope and a cloth on the table in front ...
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Family Posed in Yard

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Description: A man with an accordion, another man with a clay pipe, two women and two children are sitting around a table that has a knit cloth, a vase, a book, plants ...
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Family in the Yard

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Description: A family sitting in a row in front of their upright wing frame house. The house has cut work on the porch, small windows above the porch and a stone founda...
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Andrew Amundsen Family

Date: 1877
Description: The Andrew Amundsen family is posing around a table adorned with a knit cloth. Andrew and his wife, Sarah, are in rocking chairs with cloths over the backs...
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G. Thompson Family and Domestic Machines

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Description: The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn...
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Family in front of Home

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Description: A couple and their young child and a baby are sitting at a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with very small windows on the front second st...
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Family in front of Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family is sitting around a table with a cloth, vases and other objects on it. The man on the left is wearing a top hat, and a flower in his lapel. The tw...
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Family and their Home

Date: 1878
Description: A family is sitting around a table with a stereoscope on it. An upright and wing frame house with a stone foundation is behind them. The woman has a large ...
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Tonyawatha House

Date: 1879
Description: A group of men posing in the yard of the Tonyawatha House, later the Tonyawatha Spring Hotel, with paddles and carpentry tools. The hotel is a frame bracke...

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