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Peshtigo Schoolhouse

Date: 1871
Description: Photographic print of a wood engraving of a schoolhouse and children in Peshtigo. From the book "Sketch of the Great Fire In Peshtigo."
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Family Posed on Elaborate Porch

Date: 1871
Description: Two women and a child pose on the porch of a Greek revival frame house. The porch appears to have been added later in a Victorian style, including elaborat...
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Family posed around Table in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: A large family group is gathered around a table for coffee. The women are holding bunches of flowers, and behind them is a large bracket style house with a...
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Nels Dahl Family

Date: 1871
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, ...
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William Bonner Family

Date: 1871
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 ...
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Family by Table and Baby Carriage

Date: 1871
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...
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Family in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: Family and tree stump in yard of brick house with latticework at foundation in background. There are drain pipes on side of house.
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Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
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Abraham C. Martin and Family

Date: 1871
Description: Springfield Township, Dane County (Section 22) corner of Fischer Road and Highway 12, Wi. Abraham C. Martin, a farmer and dairyman with his family in fron...
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Henry Hooker Family

Date: 1871
Description: The Henry Hooker family in front of a picket fence before their stone house, which has a bird cage and a picture hanging on its front porch. In the 1870 c...
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Family Seated Around Table

Date: 1871
Description: Family seated around table in yard with stone house and frame addition in back; wood fence along side of house.
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Andreas Dahl's Wagon

Date: 1871
Description: Andrew Dahl's wagon is on the side of a two-story log house in Blue Mounds. On one side of the wagon cover is "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." On the ba...
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Portrait of Woman

Date: 1871
Description: Waist-up studio portrait of a woman.
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Family with Girls

Date: 1871
Description: Outdoor family portrait with most of the girls dressed in the same fabric with vertical stripes. They are posed before a brick house.
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Family of Fourteen

Date: 1871
Description: A family of fourteen in yard outside upright and wing frame house on stone foundation, with board fencing in the foreground.
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Ingeborg Dahl

Date: 1871
Description: The studio portrait of Ingeborg Dahl made after her marriage to Nels, the photographer's brother.
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Family posed around Table in Yard

Date: 1871
Description: Detail from original. Original caption reads: "A large family group is gathered around a table for coffee. The women are holding bunches of flowers, and be...
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Ingeborg Dahl

Date: 1871
Description: Enlarged and cropped studio portrait of Ingeborg Dahl made after her marriage to Nels, the photographer's brother.

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