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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Family in front of picket fence and wood walkway, which encloses an upright and wing frame house with elaborate carpenter's lace and latticework on the por... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family posing near fence with picket gate; one lady is holding an open parasol. There is a boy sitting on top of the fence with men standing behind. In the... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Family in yard with man on left on rig, man on right side with reaper and other farm implements. Four women are sitting in chairs in the center, and the wo... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two women and three children standing in the yard of cube-shaped house with porch and hipped roof with strangely placed windows. The woman on the right en... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Woodpile in right foreground, with family near board fence. There is a man holding an accordion, and a frame house in background. Two children are standing... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Three men and two women in front yard, with frame house and two children standing on porch behind. The house has a stone foundation and small second story ... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | The Christian Keyser Preus family posing in the yard of the Spring Prairie parsonage with horse-drawn vehicles, and ducks. Behind them is a rural frame hou... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Family in line, seated in yard, with two-story frame house that has an addition and small second story windows in background. There is a huge woodpile behi... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | The Nels Dahl family posing in front of their home on Main Street in DeForest. From left to right they are: Emma, Ingeborg Ronjum Dahl, Ida, Bertha, Tina, ... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | A family, possibly that of William Bonner, is posing around a table in a yard. A man is sitting on the left holding a paper in one hand and a glass in the ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family seated around table in yard with baby on grass and brick house with porch trim and shutters in background. This house is said to resemble the J. Hil... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Two women playing croquet in yard with large Victorian brick house in background that has brackets, two round windows at top and bay window at bottom; latt... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | A family is in a yard around a table. Behind them is a large brick house with four chimneys, railings on its front porch and latticework enclosing the side... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bechtel family seated in yard with croquet mallets in front of them with brick house that has soldier coursing at windows and fan window at third story. Da... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Family around table in yard with birch trees, and brick house with addition and shutters in background; porch has plants and two bird cages hanging from it... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Bechtel family posed sitting in yard with croquet mallets and balls in front. Brick house with third story fan window and frame addition in back with slan... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Family posed at board fence of brick house. Two woman, one holding a parasol, are standing in front of the fence on the left near the gate. Two men are sta... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Probably D.W. Bronson and family. A mounting block cut from a tree stump is in left foreground with carriage and saddle height steps. The family poses in f... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Family on entryway steps of two-story brick house with hipped roof; board fence in foreground. There is fruit, probably apples, on a window sill and an ova... |
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