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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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Kolb-Young Wedding

Date: 07 16 1946
Description: Outdoor portrait of the Kolb-Young wedding, with the bride Dorthy E. Kolb, wearing her mother's wedding dress, and the groom Claude A. Young.
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B.F. Hahn and Family Picnic

Date: 1876
Description: Benjamin F. Hahn, his wife Mary and their servant Sarah Hill sit around a table with an intricately patterned cloth with bowls of apples and grapes. The wo...
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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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L.C. and Daisy Bates with Men and KKK Cross

Date: 10 15 1956
Description: Daisy and L.C. Bates with two men and a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) cross that they found in their yard. Because this event preceded the integration crisis of 1957 ...
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Backyard Portrait

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Description: Alice Bedard, Harold Gauer's mother, Vernie Beck (nee Rachowski, first marriage Gauer), and Vernie's siser, Selma Rackowski.
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Frank and Helen Meyer Golden Wedding Anniversart

Date: 08 13 1950
Description: Portrait of Frank M. and Helen Meyer of 132 Franklin Avenue standing by their dining room table during an open house celebrating their golden wedding anniv...
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The Newlyweds Depart

Date: 04 1980
Description: Shortly after their wedding at Saint Theresa Catholic Church, Eugene Bodden and his bride, Linda Johnson prepare to leave the church in a manure spreader.
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Roadside Marketeers

Date: 10 1983
Description: Milton and Adeline Retzlaff took time off from serving a steady stream of customers to pose with their merchandise.
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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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Copy Photograph of Exterior View of Residence

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Description: Copy photograph of an exterior view of a wooden house with a European American man and woman posing standing in the yard. Identified as 404 Chestnut Street...
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Outdoor Portrait of European American Couple; Best Residence

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Description: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified man and woman posing standing on the wooden porch of a brick building. The vantage point of the camera is from the grou...
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A Couple, Their Home and a Dog

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Description: Outdoor view across lawn of a man and woman posing standing on the porch of a wooden house. There is a dog standing in the foreground on the right.
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August and Mary Krueger

Date: 1909
Description: August and Mary Krueger standing together in the yard, each wearing hats. Mary is holding and supporting herself with an umbrella in her right hand, and Au...
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Family Barbecue

Date: 10 1955
Description: A mother and son look on as the father tends to a thick steak cooking on a portable barbecue. The boy is holding a Dachshund puppy; the mother, three bottl...

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