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House and Family

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Description: Family posing in yard of house with four horses, with two pulling a horse-drawn carriage. There are four women, two men, a young man, five young girls, and...
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Children Playing

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Description: Five children play in the yard while a young woman watches from the doorway. A boy hangs from a cross bar; a boy rides a rocking horse; two girls sit on a ...
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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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Mowing the Lawn with Baby

Date: 05 05 1985
Description: Father carrying his infant son on his back while mowing the lawn.
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Backyard Swimming Pool

Date: 07 25 1980
Description: A family relaxes by their backyard pool, while a father tosses his infant son gently in the air.
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Bennett Family, House and Auto

Date: 1901
Description: The H.H. Bennett House, Kilbourn, with members of the family posing in front of the house and in a 1901 Winton automobile. Ashley Bennett, the son of the f...
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Family Greeting

Date: 1905
Description: Mary E. (Mrs. Joseph) Smith, third from right, with family members on the porch, wave as two men at the bottom of the steps doff their hats.
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Mothers and Children of the Neighborhood

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Group portrait of mothers and children in front of a house at 434 Virginia Terrace.
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Virginia Gillette Spanking Dicky Dupois

Date: 08 27 1931
Description: Virginia Gillette demonstrates how residents in the 400 block of Virginia Terrace are combating traffic dangers by spanking. Dicky Dupois is over her knee,...
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Farm Family and Farm

Date: 1889
Description: A farm family posing in front of farm buildings and farmhouse. The young daughters are wearing matching dresses. Men in the background are standing with a ...
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Reque Family and Home

Date: 1873
Description: Family and frame house of Lars David Reque. The family is posing in the yard which is surrounded by a picket fence, with a large frame house behind with ca...
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Family in Wooded Yard

Date: 1873
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.
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Adults at a Table Near House

Date: 1872
Description: Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev...
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Women and Children in Yard near House

Date: 1876
Description: Two women and three children standing in the yard of cube-shaped house with porch and hipped roof with strangely placed windows. The woman on the right en...
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Family near Board Fence

Date: 1871
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...
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Family on Wrap-Around Porch

Date: 1873
Description: A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston...
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Halle Steensland with Wife and Children

Date: 1876
Description: Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children at the family home, later located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard, Village of Maple Bluff. (Th...
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Couple with Small Child in Yard

Date: 1898
Description: Man, woman, and small child posing standing in a yard in front of a frame house.
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Father and Daughter in Yard

Date: 1898
Description: View across yard towards a man posing sitting, and a girl and dog standing. In the background is a frame house.
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Family and Dog in Front of House

Date: 1898
Description: A man, woman, mother-in-law, and three children posing in the yard in front of a clapboard frame house. The young girl in the middle is holding a doll, and...

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