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| Description: | The Herman Amberg Preus family and visitors, all wearing hats, are playing croquet in their yard. One child is on a rocking horse and another child is by a... |
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| Description: | Fifteen adults are seated around table being served coffee in the yard. One woman sits at the spinning wheel and another at a sewing machine. The Greek Rev... |
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| Description: | A woman (blurred by movement) stands with a parasol in front of a crude picket fence in front of a Greek Revival frame house. Children are standing in the ... |
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| Description: | A family poses in front of a fence, including women with parasols, a man with a horse, a man standing on a fence and a woman and two children on the porch ... |
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| Description: | A mother, father, four children and two babies in a yard with a frame house behind, in a heavily wooded area. |
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| Description: | Two women and a man stand in a garden that has trellises with Greek Revival frame house in background. The house has a small one story addition in back. Fa... |
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| Description: | Family in front of a wood fence with one man sitting on top of it. A woman holds a baby and child on small front porch of frame house behind. There is an a... |
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| Description: | View from across the road of a picket fence, a garden with an arched trellis and a couple on the porch of a frame house. The house has wood trim on the por... |
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| Description: | The William Bullock family is posed before a stone upright and wing house with carpenter's lace brackets and trim on its porch. |
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| Description: | Onon Bjorn Dahle and family stand before their substantial two-story bracket style stone house. It has a hipped roof, shutters and a picket fence. Onon Bjo... |
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| Description: | Ole Bull Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. The family is playing croquet on the lawn. Later, the house was known as the Thorp House. It became the state's... |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields. |
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| Description: | A family standing on the porch of the Onon Bjorn Dahle Store. The store has a second floor balcony across the front, and steps and a fence on the right sid... |
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| Description: | The Onon Bjorn Dahle Store with a pile of boxes to the left and a cornfield on the right. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J. Green & Co. store, a frame building with a false front and a third story fan window. Men with farm implements stand nearby with hor... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J. Green & Co. Store, a frame building with a false front, a third-story fan window and two full windows. Men stand nearby with farm i... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
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| Description: | One story schoolhouse with bell tower on roof and group of students and teacher in front. The scho0l is in a rural setting with a fence in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View of the Spring Prairie Lutheran Church, built in 1853 and replaced in 1886. |
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