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Family of Seven in front of House

Date: 1878
Description: A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View up hill of clapboard school building with stone foundation. The teacher and students are posed along the railing of the porch. In the background is a ...
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District #9 Clifton Schoolhouse

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Description: View from dirt road of a clapboard one-room schoolhouse with porch. There is an outhouse behind it near a field. The school was closed as children were giv...
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Cheilo Inn

Date: 1937
Description: View from across road of a one-story building with stairs leading from the dirt road to the porch; an outhouse is behind the inn. Numerous beer signs are o...
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Cottages

Date: 1910
Description: View across fields of two cottages with wrap-around screened porches standing in front of a row of evergreen trees. The house on the right has a second sto...
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Swanson Cottages, Lake Ripley

Date: 1926
Description: A cottage with a "Hill-Side" sign. An outhouse is to the right of the cottage. There is a path up the hill on the left.
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The Poplars Cottage at Nature Lovers Paradise

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Description: Exterior view of the Poplars Cottage surrounded by trees, part of Nature Lovers Paradise on Jackson Lake. Text above the photograph says, "The POPLARS --- ...
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Hotz Cottages

Date: 1912
Description: The pumphouse, foreground, and cottage at the Hotz compound at the top of Fish Creek Hill. Also shown is the log outhouse, left. The buildings are clad in ...
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Wood Pile near Porch, Taylor Alley

Date: 1966
Description: A wood pile is located near the front porch of a house. Outhouses are in the far background.

80 people live in 21 buildings in the Taylor Alley neighborh...

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Depot and Train

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Description: View over railroad tracks towards a railroad depot with an arriving train. A few passengers are on the platform. On the right is a pile of fuel wood. There...
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First O'Dea Family Home on Park Street

Date: 1912
Description: First O'Dea family home on Park Street. The house may have been built by Thomas Aquinas O'Dea. He and his family lived there until 1911 or 1912, when they ...
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House with Vine-Covered Porches

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Description: Exterior portrait of a two-story wooden house with two porches with hanging vines.
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European American Family in Their Yard

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Description: Outdoor group portrait in an unidentified location of a man, woman, three boys, and a girl posing standing behind three empty wooden chairs. Behind them is...

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