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Young Man and Horse

Date: 1905
Description: Fred von der Sump is holding the halter of a horse. A toddler identified as Jim and wearing a dress is sitting astride the horse bareback.
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Jim Kearns Family

Date: 1905
Description: James Kearns is smiling while sitting next to his wife Clara for a family portrait. Their sons Thomas and John are sitting on the ground in front of them. ...
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Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Water from French Creek covers the surface of a bridge at Dates Mill near the Marquette-Columbia County line as water rushes down a lane in the pasture in ...
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Making Sorghum Molasses

Date: 1910
Description: Steam is rising from a "cooking pan" where sorghum juice is boiling. There is a smokestack at left and a pile of fire wood on the right. Barrels, milk cans...
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Going to School

Date: 1905
Description: The seven children of August and Kate Hernkind posing in the box of a wagon sleigh pulled by a matched team. The children are dressed warmly and there is s...
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Flood at Dates Mill

Date: 1905
Description: View upstream towards five young men and boys posing on the flooded bridge at Dates Mill as water rushes from the swollen mill pond into French Creek. Anot...
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Stebbins House

Date: 1904
Description: A group is posing in front of a two-story wood frame house with a lower wing at left. Mae von der Sump is standing near a column at the left of steps leadi...
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Mrs. Ed Wallace Family

Date: 1905
Description: A group of people identified only as "Mrs. Ed Wallace Family" are posing on the lawn of a one and one-half story wood frame house. A little boy in a sailor...
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Cuff at Hernkind's

Date: 1905
Description: A portable horse-driven sorghum mill, owned by the Cuff family, has been set up at the August Hernkind farm. Two horses are hitched to the tree trunk that ...

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