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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Norwegian-American farm laborer, Hans Christianson (age 44), stands next to the grave of his childless wife, Karen Luis Christianson, born 1829, who died J... |
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| Description: | Finely detailed frame church with vestibule and steeple, enclosed with picket fencing with a hitching post in front. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Pastor Claus Friman Magelssen (1830-1904), his second wife Marie Schlambusch Magelssen, and their family sit around a table set for coffee. ... |
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| Description: | Pastor Claus Friman Magelssen (1830-1904), his second wife Marie Schlambusch Magelssen, and their family sit around a table set for coffee in the foregroun... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of a well-dressed group of young men with hats and canes outdoors. They may be at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota near Madison. |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel... |
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| Description: | A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston... |
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| Description: | Six people playing croquet in front of picket fence; frame house with shutters and latticework on porch in background. |
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| Description: | A family of sixteen in yard around table set for coffee. Three men are in the background, one holding a shotgun. There is a frame house with shutters and s... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Large brick two-story school house with small tower and three chimneys. A group of students are in front of the building and two boys are in a tree. |
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| Description: | Unidentified man with watch key hanging from vest button hole. |
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| Description: | A view of a farmstead from across a shallow valley. |
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| Description: | A Norwegian Sunday school picnic, perhaps held at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. The original stereograph is in the collection of the Norwegian-American Hist... |
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| Description: | A family of four stands in the distance next to a horse and carriage. Behind them is a barn with cupola and weather vane and a white frame house. |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is standing on a grassy hillside in the foreground. In the distance is the Allen E. Adsit farm which includes a three-story frame house wit... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wedding party outdoors on the lawn at the Norway Grove Lutheran Church. Horses and carriages are in the background. |
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| Description: | Two men are posed amid tobacco plants. Behind the men are a windmill and barn. In the center background a woman and a child stand near tall stacks of hay. ... |
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| Description: | A group of campers at McBride's Point at Maple Bluff on Lake Mendota. They are equipped with German exercise equipment (exercise pins, "kegels"), a horn (l... |
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| Description: | Stereograph image of a Native American man and woman with a young child, members of the Ute Indian Tribe, standing in front of a grass structure. |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Stereograph images of a Native American man, woman, and young boy, members of the Ute Indian Tribe, looking at a rabbit skin. |
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