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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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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: In the foreground, Erik Jensen, a minister with his hat in hand, shakes K. Doxstad's hand. Nearby a toddler pulls his own baby carriage. Two carriages, a b...
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K. Doxstad Family and Reverend Erik Jensen

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Description: The K. Doxstad family is posed in their yard around a table covered with heavy books. A baby carriage is on the left and an older woman with her knitting i...
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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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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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Christian Keyser Preus Family at Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1873
Description: The Christian Keyser Preus family posing in the yard of the Spring Prairie parsonage with horse-drawn vehicles, and ducks. Behind them is a rural frame hou...
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H.W.B. Shocco Sunday School

Date: 1912
Description: A large group of women, men, young boys and girls in Sunday dress clothes are separated into three wagons pulled by an International tractor. The original ...
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Dining Tent

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Description: The Trinity M.E. Church Dining Hall set in a tent in a field near other tents. Two banners advertise the dining hall, and a chalkboard on the right lists t...
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1st East Koshkonong Church

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Description: Exterior view of a church, with the congregation entering. Some horse-drawn buggies are on the left. Photograph caption reads: "S.O. Stevens, Stoughton, ph...

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