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Family Grouped around Table by House

Date: 1879
Description: A family is grouped around a table, including a man with a top hat, two dolls on the ground between two small girls and a woman holding a closed fan. Behin...
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Family Posing near Porch of House

Date: 1874
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...
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People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
Description: People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ...
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Farmhouse on Hill

Date: 1900
Description: View up hill towards farmhouse. There is a woman using a hand-pump in the yard on the right.
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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Family in front of House

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Description: A woman and young boy are standing on a wooden walkway, and a man is standing in the yard to the right with two young girls. A dog is lying on the porch of...
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Family in Front of House

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Description: View of group of people posing in a yard. A man is sitting surrounded by a woman, young girl and boy, and an older boy. The young girl is holding a hat and...
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The Heritage Farm after the Tornado

Date: 09 21 1931
Description: View of damaged farmhouse and group of people sitting and standing outdoors. The roof was blown off and windows were shattered. Four women stand in the yar...
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Family in Front of their Home

Date: 1905
Description: View across yard of an unidentified family posing in front of their home. In the foreground is a hand-pump. From the left a young boy is sitting in a rocki...
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Two Women and a Dog in a Yard

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Description: View towards two women and a dog posing standing in the yard of a wooden house. Trees and plants fill the yard, and on the far left laundry is hanging from...
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Back Porch

Date: 1925
Description: A hand pump and dinner bell flank the screen door of a porch at the Henriette (Mrs. George) Brumder summer home at Pine Lake. The walls of the house are st...

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