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Christine Peterson at Spinning Wheel

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Description: Christine Peterson working at her spinning wheel. Watching her from the open doorway are Laurie and Muriel, Christine's children. Muriel is holding a black...
Historical Object

Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1903
Description: A hand-painted nasturtium bud and leaf decorate an album page with five photographs of the children of Frank and Louise Mears Fargo. At top left, Frank Jr....
Photograph

Kitten

Date: 12 1905
Description: A kitten enjoying the sunlight while sitting on a piece of fabric on a table near a window. There is a pincushion on the table, a lace curtain in the windo...
Historical Object

The Fargo Children at Play

Date: 1908
Description: Five photographs mounted on an album page showing the Fargo children at play. At top left, in a posed studio portrait, Dorothy Fargo, sitting at left, "tea...
Photograph

Adopted Skunks

Date: 06 1937
Description: A domestic short-hair calico mother cat is sitting with several baby skunks around her. There is also a kitten at lower right. On the reverse of the print ...
Photograph

Mrs. Field and Kittens

Date: 09 02 1970
Description: A woman is sitting in a chair with three kittens on or near her lap. A number of home decorations and pieces of furniture are nearby, and a wooden church d...
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Bust of Man with Red Striped Headdress

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Description: Side profile of a Primitivism-styled, cast-concrete sculpture of a male figure in Sid Boyum's backyard near yew bushes and the side of the house. The figur...
Photograph

First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Barbara Notstad holding one of the ten kittens on the family farm that she will miss when she goes to school for her first year at Rockdale School near Cam...
Photograph

W.A. Holt Reading Aloud Outside to the Holt Children and Others

Date: 08 10 1913
Description: It is a Wednesday in the middle of August. Standing in the woods on the Island, W.A. Holt is reading aloud, possibly scripture or a children's sermon. A gr...
Photograph

Toddler and Cat

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Description: A toddler is standing outdoors on a wooden landing while holding onto a chair with a potted plant on it. A cat is sitting nearby on the left, looking back ...
Photograph

Group of Children at Camp Number 5

Date: 1935
Description: Group portrait of children sitting on a stack of logs. One of the children is holding a cat. Taken at Colony, Camp Number 5. Cabins are in the background. ...
Photograph

Cat on Chair

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Description: A cat is lounging on a chair indoors.
Photograph

Cat on Back of Sofa

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Description: A cat is lying on the back of a sofa.
Photograph

Center Avenue Property Clutter Complaints

Date: 12 09 1960
Description: The backyard of the Frances Burnett Gallagher residence at 2129 Center Avenue. The owner who owns four other properties in that block has received many com...
Photograph

Women on Ladder

Date: 1910
Description: Ethel Wallace is sitting on a wooden box in front of five other women who are sitting on the rungs of a ladder propped on the side of a house. A dog is sit...
Photograph

Group at Fence

Date: 05 14 1904
Description: A group of five women and two men are posing behind a wire fence and shrub. They are, from left, Mae, Will and Hattie von der Sump; Mrs. Salisbury; a woman...
Photograph

Hernkind House and Family

Date: 09 08 1904
Description: August Hernkind, center, and his wife Kate are posing with their seven children in front of their one and one-half story wood frame farm house. Their daugh...
Photograph

Walnut Grove House

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Description: Slightly elevated view looking at side of manor house with porch. A boy is sitting on a tricycle on the left, and two dogs, blurred by movement are moving ...

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