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Group Posed at Barn Raising
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Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields and wooded hills are in the far background.
1891
Witt, Matthew
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W01363I
WHi 107045
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