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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | An unusual long and low frame house with a small central second story. The porch wraps around two sides and has no railing. There are some Gothic Revival d... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family posing in a wooded yard. One man holds a wooden flute. Behind them is a Greek Revival house with a Madison Mutual insurance sign over the door. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family stands in the yard, on the porch, and on the porch roof of an impressive house with elegant scrollwork on its porch posts and roof. A bird cage ha... |
| 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: | Children outdoors for recess at the Lower Cut Meat Creek School, part of the Rosebud Agency. |
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| Description: | A man with an accordion, another man with a clay pipe, and three women sit around a table that has a knit cloth, a vase, a book, plants and fruit on it. An... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the graded school. There is a bell tower above the entrance. Caption reads: "Graded School, Warrens, Wis." |
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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. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard entitled "Melon Party." Four girls wearing bows and dresses are holding an object... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of children with giant watermelons. Four girls wearing dresses and bows hold a giant slice of melon across them as they all bite into it. Two ... |
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| Description: | Group of people and a dog in front of small frame house. One of the men is holding a violin. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Everetta Bass standing in front of the Bass family home, 131 East Montello Street. A portrait of President McKinley is hanging in the front window. |
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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: | 06 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Schafer (?) in a drum majorette costume in a marching position with a baton and wearing boots, posing outdoors near a house. |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Tim Schyska, 610 Clymer Place, with a movie projector showing a movie in his backyard to a group of neighborhood children. |
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