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Coaching Party Departing for Scottish Games

Date: 08 31 1909
Description: A coaching party of festively clad men, women, and children departing for the Annual Scottish Games sponsored by the St. Andrews Society. Some participants...
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Children at Play in Rural Setting

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Description: Children and a few adults (possibly teachers) hold hands in a circle while other children stand by or swing under a tree in a rural setting. Horse-drawn ca...
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Gates of Heaven and Floral Parade

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Description: A horse-drawn carriage decorated for a floral parade on West Washington Avenue. The carriage is passing in front of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue (the buil...
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Eddie Wendorf with Wheelbarrow

Date: 10 20 1901
Description: Eddie Wendorf as a baby pushing a toy wheelbarrow in a yard.
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Men Standing on their Heads

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Description: In the foreground, two men are doing headstands while another man is holding their legs together over his head. Women and children are watching from behind...
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Wisconsin Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Three people are posing in the foreground, with a man with a long beard standing in front of two women sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. There is a barn a...
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Somersault of Death

Date: 10 1906
Description: A female daredevil stunt driver, possibly Beryle Elliot, in a horseless carriage catapults up into the air, doing a loop-the-loop or sommersault off a ski ...
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Family Playing Croquet near Barn

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Description: Group posed playing croquet in front of a bank barn with a handsome cupola and lightning rods. Horse-drawn wagons are in front of the barn.
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Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen and Family

Date: 1878
Description: The Reverend Peter Andreas Rasmussen (1829-1898) is shaking the hand of a woman, possibly his wife Ragnhild Holland Rasmussen. Someone has apparently just ...
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Prensor and Ottesen Families leave the Rickelsen Home

Date: 1877
Description: H.A. Prensor and J.A. Ottesen and their families leaving the home of R. Daniel Rickelsen in Lodi.
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Reverend Erik Jensen and Wife with Children

Date: 1875
Description: Twenty-one children are seated on wooden benches and the ground in front of a square frame house with a hip roof and cupola. The Reverend Erik Jensen (1841...
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Gesell Children with Christmas Tree

Date: 1893
Description: Studio portrait of Gerhard Gesell's five children (l to r: Arnold, Bertha, Robert, Gerhard, and Wilma) posed around a Christmas tree with their gifts.
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Woman Riding Horse in Circus Parade

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a woman with two white horses in a circus parade. She is riding one of the horses.
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Water Wagon Pulled by Horses

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Description: Slightly elevated view towards a horse-drawn water sprinkler on a wagon approaching an arch over the intersection during a parade. People are gathered on t...
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Barron County Fair Grounds

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Description: Crowd at fairground, with people watching from horse-drawn vehicles in the foreground, more spectators in the grandstands with umbrellas in the background.
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Men and Women in Buggy

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Description: Group seated in a horse-drawn buggy are on the side of a road next to a river. The two women are sitting on the laps of the two men.
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Closing Day Exercises in District #15, North Lancaster

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Description: A large group of children and adults pose in a field around trees. There is a tent in the background with flags, and two women sit in a carriage on the lef...
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Livestock Judging at Union High School Agricultural Fair

Date: 10 05 1912
Description: Elevated view of crowd around horses during livestock judging. In the background are fields, a road, power lines, and in the far distance along the horizon...
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Horse-Drawn Parade Carriage

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Description: Horse-drawn carriage elaborately decorated with flowers appears to be stopped off parade route. The carriage is carrying four women wearing formal dresses ...
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Baseball Game in Farm Field

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Description: View from distance of group playing a game of baseball. Spectators sit in horse-drawn carriages. The game is being played in a farm field, with farm buildi...

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