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William Dickinson House

Date: 1874
Description: An elegant carriage and a group of people are standing in front of a picket fence, with a brick house with shutters and hipped roof behind. More people are...
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Playing Croquet on the Farm

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Description: People are playing croquet in a field in the foreground with other people, horses, cattle and carriages also posing in the field. In the background, peopl...
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H. Sveren Farm

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Description: H. Sveren farm with the family standing in the foreground and a dog, farm buildings and fences in the background. A line of trees is behind the farmhouse o...
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Horses and Carriages in front of Barn

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Description: View down farmyard towards a couple sitting in a carriage on the left, and a family, including three girls with parasols, sitting in another vehicle in the...
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Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen and Family

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Description: The Reverend Jakob Aall Ottesen (1825-1904), his wife Cathinka Doderlein Ottesen and their family posing in three horse-drawn wagons in front of a two-stor...
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Martin K. Dahl Family and Home

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Description: The Martin K. Dahl family is in the yard of their brick Victorian home, which is surrounded by an iron fence. The house has iron work on porch tops and on ...
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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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Farms of Burton, Fitlen, and Rustebakke

Date: 1873
Description: View of several farms, including Burton's, Fitlen's and Rustebakke's. Field arrangements and fencing patterns are evident. A man is walking along the bott...
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Farm and Rolling Hills

Date: 1873
Description: View of a prosperous farmstead from a neighboring hill. A man is standing near a woman in a horse-drawn vehicle in front of a board fence in the foreground...
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G. Gullockson Farmstead

Date: 1876
Description: View, from above, of what may be the G. Gullockson farmstead. A frame house is in the left foreground, with a large group of men, women and children standi...
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Coolidge Family

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Description: View down a poplar-lined lane with fields and fences on the right. A man and child are sitting in the lane in a horse-drawn wagon with a team of two horses...
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Ole Wettlesen Barnyard

Date: 1874
Description: View of the Ole Wettlesen barnyard. A man is standing and holding a pail in the center near a lineback cow. People, cattle, sheep, horses, a barn, haysta...
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Carriage and Horses in front of Barn

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Description: Men and cattle, including one lineback and sheep are in a barnyard. A man and a child are sitting in a horse-drawn vehicle outside of the barnyard fence. T...
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N. Lunde Farm

Date: 1874
Description: View framed by trees of a barnyard at the N. Lunde farm. Cattle and three men are standing in an enclosed yard in front of a barn with a cupola. One of the...
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Family with Horse-Drawn Buggy on Farm

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Description: A family is at a farm in town with frame buildings, a horse-drawn buggy, and a long frame structure possibly used for drying hops.
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Well-Dressed Women in Field

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Description: Two well-dressed women with parasols standing in a field in the foreground. Behind them are groups of people in wagons, as well as livestock, and a farmste...
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Men in Field Pointing at Livestock

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Description: Two men are in a field in the foreground, one sitting in a carriage, one standing next to it, and both men pointing to the background. There we see cows, h...
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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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Men with Horses and Wagons near Barn

Date: 1870
Description: Men, horses and wagons on a hillside. A barn and another building are in the background.

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