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Joe Kelley's Barn

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Description: A barn and outbuilding on the Joe Kelley farm in a field at the end of a dirt track. There is a mailbox attached to a post in the left foreground.
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Woman in White

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Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of draperies and a painted backdrop of a young woman wearing a full-length white dress with a lacy bodice and a pastel...
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Couple on a Bridge

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Description: Rear view of a man and woman standing on a wooden bridge in a wooded area.
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Margery Bish Hanging Clothes on Clothesline

Date: 1890
Description: Margery Bish as a little girl. She is wearing a striped dress while hanging clothes on a clothesline. There is a doll behind her on the right.
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Carnegie Library

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Description: View from street of a Carnegie Library, a stone building on a low hill.
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Man Reading

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of a smiling man in a dark suit and bowler hat in front of a painted backdrop. He is standing looking at a tiny book in his l...
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Bish Family

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Description: An older female member of the Bish family sits in a wicker chair holding a magazine or book open on her lap. Standing on the left in front of a doorway dra...
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Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
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Sugar Factory

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Description: A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ...
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Flood Wreckage

Date: 1903
Description: View of the wreckage of wooden structures lying on the shoreline of a river after a flood. A dam across the river has been partially washed away. A man is ...
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Outdoor Meeting

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Description: About two dozen men sit in chairs and on stumps in a clearing in a wooded area, having a meeting.
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Man Using Tire-Making Machinery

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. A man is using a machine to wrap canvas around a rubber tire.
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Bridge Over a Stream

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Description: A bridge across a small creek in Silver Springs Park. Some birch and pine trees are nearby.
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Family with Portrait

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Description: Seven members of the Fragon family sitting and standing for a portrait around a framed painting of a young man, possibly a deceased family member. An older...
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Lady with Umbrella and Hat

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Description: Full-length portrait of a lady in a floor-length dark dress and elaborate flowered hat standing and holding an umbrella in front of a painted studio backdr...
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Little Girls Having a Tea Party

Date: 1900
Description: Margery Bish (left) and another little girl, unidentified, sit at a low outdoor table set with a tea service. There is a china doll propped under the table...
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Terrier Dog

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Description: A terrier sits with its tongue out facing the camera.
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"Posking" (Chippewa)

Date: 10 15 1907
Description: Outdoor portrait of a man standing outside the open door of a wooden home with one hand on his hip, and in his other hand holding what may be a pipe restin...
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Filling Tire Molds

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of a room in the Boone Tire Factory. Two men are removing a tire from a mold, one of many running along a conveyor belt inside the Boone Tire...
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The Last of the Great Lumber Rafts

Date: 1900
Description: A woman and a man are standing on a hill overlooking a large lumber raft (allegedly the last of its kind) traveling down the Mississippi River. There is a ...

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