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Plant-Covered Front Porch

Date: 1915
Description: Plant-covered front porch and steps of a house. Original caption reads: "National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio."
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Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen and Family

Date: 1874
Description: The Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen (1825-1904), his wife Cathinka Doderlein Ottesen and family posed in front of their home. A man on the roof holds out a Nor...
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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Family by Vine Covered House

Date: 1873
Description: A wooden fence with widely spaced pickets is in the foreground. Behind it is a family in the yard of a frame house that has vines covering its windows, nic...
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Family Seated in front of House

Date: 1875
Description: Large bracket house with shutters and man on porch; carpenter's lace in excess; family seated in yard in front of house. House also has latticework at foun...
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Women on Horses

Date: 1874
Description: Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ...
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Smith Cobblestone Inn

Date: 1933
Description: Southeast view of the Jesse Smith Cobbletone Inn.
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Costumed Children

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: A girl and boy in costume for a Fourth of July parade in the Westmoorland neighborhood. From left to right are Thomas Hammill, son of Mr. and Mrs. William ...
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Company House and Family in Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
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Residence on West Wilson Street

Date: 1948
Description: Side view of a large, brick house, located at 109 West Wilson Street.
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The Wirth House

Date: 1948
Description: The Wirth house, later the residence of Police Chief William H. McCormick, located at 2817 Milwaukee Street. The newer addition was built circa 1882, the o...
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Ivy-Covered Cottage

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Description: A view of an ivy-covered cottage with a chimney in Cape Cod.
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Sunnyside

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Description: In 1835, Washington Irving, author and historian, purchased a small Dutch farmhouse beside the Hudson River. The stone cottage would come to be called "Sun...
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Three Women on Porch

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three women posing sitting on the porch of old Elliot House. Old Elliot House was where teachers boarded and later was the home o...
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Paul C. Wilson Residence

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Description: View across lawn toward the facade and right side of the residence of Paul C. Wilson, with a rounded walkway to the right. The stone structure displays som...
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A Residence

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Description: View across yard toward a three-story home surrounded by trees. The pillars of the two-story porch and the corners of the structure resemble Corinthian col...
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Buddy Brown

Date: 1953
Description: Buddy Brown poses outdoors standing on a box wearing boxing gloves and trunks.
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Skillet Creek Fruit Farm

Date: 1927
Description: Exterior view of a two-story house with a front porch and an enclosed porch on the side. In the background is a barn or outbuilding.
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Lovers' Lane, Brodhead

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Description: A pedestrian path along a fence and road. There is a house in the distance.
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Two Men with Implements and Cigarettes

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Description: Two men in work clothes and hats pose in a yard with farm implements. Both of them are smoking cigarettes.

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