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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | School children standing ready to begin a May-pole dance. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A man lies on the ground with a dog near the front door of his house. His wife and baby are posed on the steps of a side porch. The frame house has a stone... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The home of R.D. Rickelesen. Five men and a woman in the foreground dressed in walking costumes are playing croquet with frame house behind; two women are ... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Woodpile in right foreground, with family near board fence. There is a man holding an accordion, and a frame house in background. Two children are standing... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A family group is posing in yard. Part of the group is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence which encloses the brick Greek Revival house. Anot... |
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| Description: | Member of a local farmers' band practicing in a barnyard with a cow and pony. Another animal, unidentified, stands behind the sousaphone player. |
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| Description: | Dancing in Henry Thomas' yard led by Tefferteller. Next to the fiddler is Uncle Willy Marlowe, a neighbor. Henry Thomas is sitting on the porch. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two girls stand in front of a large pile of giant string beans. Red text in the upper portion of the image reads, "How we do things at Ihlen, Minn." |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored photograph of Dunham School, standing in a grove of trees, surrounded by a fence. The building is built of brick and has a bell tower, with a ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the front of a one-room schoolhouse. There is a Red Cross poster hanging in the school entryway, and a smaller outbuilding behind the scho... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the church. The building features a bell steeple, stained glass windows, and double front doors. There is a fenced lot and a barn to the l... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of church. The church building features arched doors and windows, stained glass, and a bell steeple. There is a cemetery behind the... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the public school. The school building features two stories, a bell tower, and a porch. A car is parked by the entrance. There is a swing ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the German English Lutheran Church. The church has a gable roof and a steeple with a bell. In the foreground is a fence and field, and in the b... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View across road towards the exterior of a brick elementary school in northern Wisconsin. A large group of children and adults pose from within the schooly... |
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| Description: | On left: Woman posed sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips. On right: Studio portrait of two young gi... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across street of the German Lutheran Church. There is a lamppost and a sign at the foot of the stairs. A fenced-in churchyard is on the right. The par... |
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