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Fourteen Foot Tomato Plant

Date: 09 27 1936
Description: Mr. Liebenberg standing on a ladder measuring a 14 foot tomato plant growing in his garden. Mrs. Liebenberg is standing beside the plant.
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Flower Garden

Date: 07 30 1930
Description: House and flower garden, 614 E. Main Street. There is a man (possibly Emanuel F. Yager) standing on the porch with a Trachte 4 bay garage in the background...
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Hillyer Family on Front Porch

Date: 1875
Description: The Edwin and Angeline Coe Hillyer family is grouped at the corner of a large Greek Revival house with ornamental railing work on its porch roof. A man is ...
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Family around Table in Garden

Date: 1875
Description: A family sitting around a table in a garden path. A man is standing in the background on the porch of the frame house. The porch has carpenter's lace above...
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Family on Garden Path

Date: 1869
Description: A view up a garden path leads past family members to a bracket-style frame house with outbuildings.
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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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Large Sunflower Plant

Date: 09 1949
Description: William Herrling looking at a very tall sunflower plant growing beside his house, 2123 University Avenue.
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Who's New Club Picnic

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Picnickers at a Who's New Club Picnic opening their box lunches: Lieut. and Mrs. Ivor Callaway; Chaplain and Mrs. Edwin B. Nylen; Mrs. Ralph Ebert and her ...
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Two Men with Oxen

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Description: Portrait of two men standing with two teams of oxen in front of a frame house and garden.
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Gauer and Bloch Working Outdoors

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Description: Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch sit on chairs outside in a backyard writing on sheets of paper. A liquor bottle sits on the table between them.
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Dousmans and Friends Playing Cards

Date: 1898
Description: Group of twelve people, including Nina Dousman, gathered around a table outdoors, with a fountain spouting water in the background. Four people play cards ...
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Farm Scene

Date: 1905
Description: A man stands with a horse near a small barn. A buggy and wagon are parked nearby. There are two small sheds or outhouses near a garden plot and a haystack ...
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Group of People in Yard in Front of Frame House

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Description: Seven people are posing in the yard of a frame house with a porch. There are plants in a garden in the foreground. An older man and woman are sitting in ch...
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Group of People Posing in front of Frame House

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Description: Group portrait of a man and woman posing sitting in chairs, with a young boy and a dog posing between them. An older boy is standing to their right holding...
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Large Group of People in Yard Outside Log House

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Description: Large group, thirty or so, of men, women, children and infants posing standing in the yard of a house in front of and behind a wooden fence. In the center ...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Garden Club

Date: 1938
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Garden Club posing in their yards or next to their plants. Started in 1931 as part of...
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Holcombe Parsonage

Date: 1920
Description: Rear view of the first parsonage occupied by the Reverend Mr. Row.
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Holcombe Parsonage

Date: 1920
Description: View of front porch of the first parsonage occupied by the Reverend Mr. Row.
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Otto and Mathilda Hammer

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Description: Otto and Mathilda Hammer in their large garden outside their home. Otto Hammer helped build the first sawmill in Hillsburo in 1855.
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Theodore Miller

Date: 1900
Description: Therodore Miller standing and posing with his bicycle in a yard with a small garden.

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