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Koehler Family in a Garden

Date: 09 04 1895
Description: Julius Koehler family in their garden in front of their newly built frame home. The original Koehler farm was destroyed by forest fire in July of 1894, evi...
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Family in Cabbage Field near Farmhouse

Date: 1873
Description: In the foreground, a family is standing and sitting in a garden with cabbages, corn and other crops. Behind them is a one-story frame house and a hops dry...
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Farm with Traditional Norwegian Sval House

Date: 1870
Description: People in field with hay piles and traditional Norwegian Sval House (right) and salt-box house (left) with adjoining garden and farm buildings in the backg...
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Couple with Baby in Garden

Date: 1872
Description: A couple is posed with a baby in its buggy in the garden of a frame house with a parapet roof and small octagonal gazebo-like brick structure on its left s...
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Anders Moldstad Family

Date: 1875
Description: A large family group is posed in the foreground in front of a frame house with shutters and a lightening rod. Greek Revival style house, possibly belonging...
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Andres Malsted Family Posed in Garden

Date: 1876
Description: Fourteen members of what may be the Andres Malsted family pose in the garden. Behind them is a picket fence and behind it their upright and wing frame hous...
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Hillyer Family on Front Porch

Date: 1875
Description: The Edwin and Angeline Coe Hillyer family is grouped at the corner of a large Greek Revival house with ornamental railing work on its porch roof. A man is ...
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People Posed in front of G. Bashford Home

Date: 1878
Description: Two women and a man posed in the garden path of an L-shaped Greek Revival frame house. The front and back doors are open, revealing a breezeway straight th...
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Family on Garden Path by House

Date: 1875
Description: A family is seated around a table in the middle of a garden path, and a man stands on the porch of the frame house behind them. The house has carpenter's l...
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Family around Table in Garden

Date: 1875
Description: A family sitting around a table in a garden path. A man is standing in the background on the porch of the frame house. The porch has carpenter's lace above...
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Family on Garden Path

Date: 1869
Description: A view up a garden path leads past family members to a bracket-style frame house with outbuildings.
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Couple in Garden Walkway

Date: 1873
Description: A man, and a woman who has open parasol are standing in a garden walkway with a frame house in the background. There are three chimneys and small windows a...
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Family in Garden

Date: 1874
Description: Family in garden with wood walkway in foreground. Two people are standing on the porch of the brick house behind; the house has shutters around the windows...
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Couple with Small Child in Yard

Date: 1898
Description: Man, woman, and small child posing standing in a yard in front of a frame house.
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Ceylon Building

Date: 1893
Description: The gateway to the Ceylon Building's courtyard, from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The building was purchased by J.J. Mitchell, moved to Lake Geneva...
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Ada Bass and Daughter Everetta

Date: 1890
Description: Ada Bass and Everetta standing on the porch of the Bass family home.
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Three Women

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph. The woman in front is displaying a Muskellunge, caught in Long Lake, on the residential lawn of M. Newman. Two other woman are standing behind...
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Dousmans and Friends Playing Cards

Date: 1898
Description: Group of twelve people, including Nina Dousman, gathered around a table outdoors, with a fountain spouting water in the background. Four people play cards ...
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Pie Plants in Garden

Date: 07 30 1895
Description: A garden lush with tall pie plants (rhubarb) belonging to Mrs. H.H. Wooledge. One stalk is leaning against a wooden chair, and the leaf of the plant reachi...
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General Lee's Headquarters

Date: 06 1863
Description: Stereograph of General Lee's headquarters at Gettysburg, photographed by Mathew Brady a few days after the battle. Two women appear on the lower right.

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