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Family Reading by Picket Fence and House
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A family is sitting around a table in front of a picket fence. Three of the adults are holding books, one man is holding a long pipe and a girl is holding her hat in her lap. To the right is a hat resting on a mounting block (tree stump). The frame house behind them has latticework on the sides and top of a small porch and on the bottom of a larger porch.
1877
Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923
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