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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | A family sits in a yard around a table. Behind them is a fence and a wood frame house with curved shutters, four chimneys and lightning rods. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | A large family is seated around a table in the yard before a large frame house with shuttered windows. A dog is in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View from road down wooden sidewalk which runs adjacent to an elaborate fence along a yard, behind which women stand near the front porch of a frame house ... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family sits around a table covered with books and decorated with flowers. Behind them is a front yard with a fence, gate and wood frame house with shutte... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | An unidentified family, thought to be Yankees, pose at a board fence in front of an upright and wing frame house. The group includes two women with poses i... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family is in the yard around a table. A baby sits in a high chair and a man and woman are seated on a loveseat. Behind them is a frame house with an orga... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898), his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen, and their eight children sit around a table in the yard of their hou... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | The Ashburn family sits around a table in their yard. Behind them is a frame house with plants on its porch, curtains visible in its windows, and a pump by... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family is gathered around table for coffee with a frame house behind that has a sewing machine on its porch, and a lightning rod on the roof. A framed pi... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | A family is standing and sitting in a yard of the porch of a upright and wing frame house that has a diamond shaped attic window, two doors in front and ha... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | View across yard with tall plants and grass towards a man and woman sitting on a porch behind a latticework railing. The porch has carpenter's lace and a p... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a family standing near a small and neat rural frame house. The women are wearing hats. One man is leaning against the house with ... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | An unusual long and low frame house with a small central second story. The porch wraps around two sides and has no railing. There are some Gothic Revival d... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family of seven stands in the yard of a large, but plain wood frame house. It has three chimneys and a small attic story window in tablet style. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | A family playing croquet in the yard of a frame house with three chimneys. A baby carriage is near the house on the left, and exterior cellar doors are on ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A family playing croquet in the yard of a side gable frame house with a porch. A birdcage is hanging from the porch and a young girl is clutching a doll. A... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | A family of eleven is sitting on the porch steps and standing in the yard alongside a wood frame house with elegant trim above its windows, and along top f... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Extended family group of twenty-two people, some in work clothes, some elegantly dressed, stand in a yard and on the porch steps of an upright and wing fra... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A family of seven standing in a yard near a board fence in front of their frame house. A dog is sitting near the boy in the foreground. A man standing on t... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | A family is posing in the yard of a farmhouse near the porch. A child is sitting in a baby buggy. Farm buildings, farm implements, wagons and people are in... |
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