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Koehler Family in a Garden



Koehler Family in a Garden
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Title: Koehler Family in a Garden
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, evidence of which is left in the burnt trees in the background.
Image ID: 1791
Creation
Date: 		September 4, 1895 
Creator
Name: 		Perkins, H.J.
City, State: Phillips, Wisconsin
Collection
Name: 		Hand-Book for the Homeseeker
Genre: Photographs
Additional
Information: 		For promotional use of this image, see Image ID: 95148

Variant: Hand-Book, page 43. Exceptional document. This image is one of many that was created for and appeared in "Northern Wisconsin: A Hand-Book for the Homeseeker" (1896), a promotional survey for the Wisconsin College of Agriculture by W.A. Henry. Henry was the Dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin.

This image also appears on page 6 of "Hand book of Price County," a promotional document published by the Board of Imagination with support from Frederick Abbot, land commissioner at the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company in Milwaukee. See University of Wisconsin Digital Collections website: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=turn&entity=WI.HandPriceCo.p0008&id=WI.HandPriceCo&isize=
Subjects: Gardens
Flowers
Plants
Trees
Dwellings
Farmhouses
Cities and towns
Fences
Hats
Vegetables
Family
Men
Outdoor photography
Women
Land use, Rural
Dresses
Beards
Clothing and dress
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society.
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