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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence at 130 East Gilman Street. Family on lawn playing croquet with house in background. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It be... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | The Tollef Olsen family posed around a table in the yard with the family dog. A framed print of a long-haired retriever is placed prominently on a chair to... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Children on the back porch of the Bass family home, 207 Clay Street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across yard towards four men washing a surrey using metal buckets in front of a stable. A boy wearing a suit, necktie and straw hat is standing behind... |
| Date: | 07 04 1902 |
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| Description: | Three boys holding fireworks stand near a tent or open-sided awning in a backyard near a house. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Carl Schurz home in Watertown, Wisconsin. Schurz was a German-American politician and statesman. There is a horse and a horse-drawn ve... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Mary E. (Mrs. Joseph) Smith, third from right, with family members on the porch, wave as two men at the bottom of the steps doff their hats. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Sauk City Humanist Ladies Aid. Standing left to right: Mrs. Crusius, Mrs. Kuoni, Mrs. Mueller, O. Meyer, Mrs. Schmiedhofer. S... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | A group of adults, including Harry E. Cole (center), stand behind a fence. A sign on the fence reads, "YOU CAN'T PLAY IN OUR BACK YARD." |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man and a farm couple standing next to a house. The woman is holding a bowl and there is snow in the yard. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man stands outdoors with a lawn mower. His work gloves and hat are resting on the mower. Caption on photograph reads, "Uncle Paul from Rice Lake-Wis." |
| Date: | 06 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Three male members of the Disch family show off ribbons won for raising prize sheep. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Snow-covered birdhouse perched in a small tree. A house is in the background. |
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| Description: | A man chops wood in the background as a woman walks towards the house with buckets in hand. |
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| Description: | The frame of a broken wagon sits in a field. In the background are in several farm buildings and a farmhouse. |
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| Description: | A young boy and his little dog sit together on a toy tractor in a driveway behind a parked car. |
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| Description: | The G. Thompson family posing in front of their wooden house. One woman is sitting at a sewing machine working on a quilt while another is working at a kn... |
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