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Yankee-Built Greek Revival House

Date: 1870
Description: A Yankee-built Greek Revival frame house from the 1840s. The small dark rectangular plaque above the door is a Madison Mutual Insurance Company sign that i...
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Family on Porch of Frame House

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Description: A portrait of a family of seven seated on the porch of a frame house. Farm buildings can be seen in the background.
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Family in front of Frame House

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Description: Three boys sitting on a wooden fence near a gate where a women and man are standing next to a baby carriage with a seated infant, in front of a frame house...
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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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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 640-647

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Description: You who were spared I talked with night but last
about the velvet years
I remember from the window
The one that is blown is the one gone wild
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 776-783

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Description: That instinct path to the waiting door
is a mile of running
beyond the last ounce of bursting heart
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Broom and Wash-Basin

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified man standing in (a farmyard?) with a broom and wash-basin.
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Goetsch Family with Cow

Date: 05 1902
Description: Goetsch family standing with a cow in front of the home of Paul C. Goetsch. From left to right are: Russel Goetsch, Paul C. Goetsch, Mrs. Paul C. Goetsch, ...
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Outdoor Portrait of the Twins

Date: 1903
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jennie and Edgar Krueger standing in front of the side of a house. Jennie is wearing a pocket watch in her front pocket with the chain ...
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Tillie Timmel Reading the Newspaper

Date: 1908
Description: Tille Timmel, Florentina's cousin, sitting in a chair, outdoors, reading the newspaper. A large potted plant is sitting next to her.
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Effie Goetsch Carr

Date: 10 1901
Description: Outdoor portrait of Effie Goetsch Carr posing sitting in a log stump fashioned into a chair near the side of a house. She is wearing a large velvet hat wit...

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