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| Description: | Yava-Supai [Havasupai] Indians and a dog in front of a house in Cataract Canyon. |
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| Description: | View of sod house in short grass country. Features rectangular building with a curved roof and windows. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | View of first house built in Dodge City. The sod building has a roof, window openings and a door. The surrounding landscape is barren. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A woman uses a metal pail to feed a flock of White Wyandotte chickens near what appears to be a sod chicken coop. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Special Trip: Oldest sod house in Platte Valley, 1886, H.W. Roberts." |
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| Description: | View of a mountaintop house and other buildings with sod roofs. Two women, who are possibly Swiss or Norwegian, are in the foreground sitting on a steep hi... |
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| Description: | A farming couple pose together on the steps of a building with a sod roof in Nordfjord country. In the background is a lake and a mountain on the far shore... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Team of oxen in front of a sod shanty on the Dakota plains. Two men stand behind the team on the right. The animals are hitched to a plow. |
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